Playboy isn`t like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men`s magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

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

[Talking about the risk of putting a nude woman in a magazine] "It was risky enough that I didn`t put my name on the first issue."

When asked if blondes have more fun: "They do with me."

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

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

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.

(On publishing Playboy magazine) "If there was going to be a sexual revolution, I would be its pamphleteer."

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

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it`s sex.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

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

Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.