"The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era."

"There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002."

"There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?"

"I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats."

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

"My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful."

"I am in very good health. I've never felt better."

"I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me."

"My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home."

"I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave."

"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 have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend."

"I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed."

"If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it."

"What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same."

"In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process."

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

"I'm actually a very moral guy."

"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."

"Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'"

"Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole."

"I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me."

"The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there."

"Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so."