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

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.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

You know, an iPhone is fashion everything is fashion.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.