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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.