Hugh Hefner

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'

The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women.

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

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

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.

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.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.