I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

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.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.