Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff..

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..

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important..

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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'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….

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

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….