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Danh ngôn của Carl Hiaasen (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.