I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

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.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.