Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.