Carl Hiaasen quotes

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.