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.

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

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

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

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

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

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

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

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

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

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

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.