Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

What is power without control?

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.