"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."

"The business end of business has never interested me."

"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now."

"When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer."

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

"If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow."

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

"The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great."

"Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers."

"In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life."

"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 early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever."

"In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago,"

"Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports."

"I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion."

"Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are."

"Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses."

"Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot."

"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."

"I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s."

"I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude."

"I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that."

"I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century."

"They must be doing something right up there in Canada."

"I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished."

"What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet."

"At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes."

"Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it."

"The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people."

"I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher."

"America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies."

"I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet."

"What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young."

"I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time."

"Beauty is everywhere -- on the campus, in the office, living next door ... Nice girls like sex too -- it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it."

"There are many roads to Mecca."

"Everybody marches to a different drummer."

"Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young."

"I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life."

"I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself."

"Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down."

"I truly believe that age -- if you're healthy -- age is just a number."

"Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female."

"You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.""It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization."

"It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization."

"I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient."

"I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize."

"You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams."

"I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed."

"Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality."

"I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else."