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

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.

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.

An attitude will give you heft.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

Dreams are not theirs to take!

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.