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

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Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

Carl Hiaasen

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“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
“Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die weâ€™ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesnâ€™t mean weâ€™ll get turned into witches. You canâ€™t avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. Thatâ€™s the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth. Or you can be like a river when a forest fire hits it--phshhhhhhhhhhhh! Just drown it, drown all the heat and let it wash away.”
“Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.”
“All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.
“Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.”
“Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.”

Source : 2004 Explaining his identity-his father was a Berber from the Kabylie region of Algeria and Zidane grew up in the Marseille suburb of La Castellane. In the Observer, 4 Apr.
“Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.”
“Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.”

Source : Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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