01c. 1971 ADIt's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADI'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADI have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADI have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADOne of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADIn my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADI think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADIt's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADMy folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADThe difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADWhat's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADYou know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADI 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.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADThe difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADMy first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADI was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADI always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADThe whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.Hugh Hefner / quote ↗
