I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with.

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.

You can't put a leash on me. I'm unleashable!

I wanted to continue the course, continue on what "we" had, and wanted life to be the same. However, the Titanic had hit the iceberg, the "done" couldn’t be changed now.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .