Christopher Buckley Quotes
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You live vicariously through your characters.
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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
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I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
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Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
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How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
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American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
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My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
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I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
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I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.
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I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
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Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
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I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
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George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
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As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
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We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
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In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
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In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.
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I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.