Hugh Hefner Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.”

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

“Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.”

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

“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.”

“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.”

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