Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American adult magazine publisher and businessman, the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. Read full biography of Hugh Hefner →
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they... →
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and... →
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American adult magazine publisher and businessman, the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises.