"Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it." ― Carl Hiaasen Topic(s): Humor More From Carl Hiaasen "The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace – you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader’s going to finish what you’re writing." "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." "Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that ‘death panels’ would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it’s hard to beat Sarah Palin’s ignorant nattering on the subject." More In Humor "Gags die, humor doesn’t."― Jack Benny "You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they’ve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you’ll ever see on TV."― Harvey Pekar "I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family."― Paula Poundstone