It is difficult not to write satire.

Difficile est saturam non scribere.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

It is difficult to write about a real person.

I find free verse very, very difficult to write.

When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief.

Wherever there is objective truth there is satire.

Exista lucruri care nu se scriu niciodata!