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 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.

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.

An attitude will give you heft.

I taught I had to be good to walk with God. And God said, “My grace is what you need to walk with me, than you will be good.

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.

Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I can be.

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.