I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets.

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.

He brightened. "Are you Irish then?" "My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.

Two half truths don't make one truth.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

I have a few goals that I kind of keep to myself.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

He who labors diligently need never despair.