190 Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. ‘It’s important to stand up for what’s right,’ Mr. Eberhardt had said, ’but sometimes there’s a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Not my circus, not my monkey.” Yancy.

He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had.

My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it’s a good space.

All novels are about crime. You’d be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don’t see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That’s the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can’t stand a little silence.

The gunshots awakened Mr. Ullman, a banker by trade and a recent arrival from Copenhagen, who looked out the bedroom window just in time to see a tremendous bull galloping across his yard with a thrashing young American impaled on its rack. Mr. Ullman quickly telephoned the police and informed them, as urgently as his newly-acquired English would allow, that an ’unlucky cowboy is being perforated seriously.

Watching the cab speed off, Wahoo’s father looked forlorn. “It’s like she’s leaving us twice,” he remarked. “What are you talking about, Pop?” “I’m seein’ double, remember? There she goes – and there she goes again.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there’s just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.