If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game..

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..

An attitude will give you heft..

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?".

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casuall….

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write..

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do kno….

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 ….

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 wi….

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh..

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 ordin….

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us..

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..

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words..

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to….

People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environm….

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to mak….

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

I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almo….

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it ….