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“My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.”
Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
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“When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,”
Source : "Base Jumper Felix Baumgartner". Interview, www.nationalgeographic.com. October 31, 2012.
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“I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.”
Source : "Citizens before corporations". www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.
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“I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.”
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“As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.”
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“I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.”
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“I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.”
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“In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.”