Explore Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.