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1. Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
2. I 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.
3. I 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.
4. Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
5. Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
6. Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.
7. My 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.
8. I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.
9. Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
10. 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.
11. My 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.
12. People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.
13. The women’s movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on ‘Playboy.’
14. With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club… one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications — added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar — and the bunny was born.
15. I’m never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.
16. I am in very good health. I’ve never felt better.
17. The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
18. 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.
19. I guess you could say, I’m just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
20. I guess I’m the most successful man I know. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody in the world.