I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be fun… — Quoted

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

Carl Hiaasen · Funny

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Carl Hiaasen

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.

Anger

Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Age

Carl Hiaasen

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Death

Carl Hiaasen

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.

Morning