I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you.

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel

All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was, ” he cringed as he beat himself up inside.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force