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

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.

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.

Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Hope was like frogs praying for wings so they didn't bump their asses when they hopped

When he comes for her, it’s only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That’s when she listens.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.