We’ve always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
There’s so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that’s the role of the satirist – you have to examine your own country and say, ‘look!’ Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
I’d love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
When I’m working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it’s changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don’t know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at – you know, and the soapbox routine. They’re much more uneasy knowing they’re a target of ridicule. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
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. Carl Hiaasen Read Quote
