If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for 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.

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.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.