For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.

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.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Time is but a mode of thought

I want to be the George Clooney of music.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.