Hugh Hefner

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.