Christopher Buckley Quotes
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It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.
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A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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I am post-Catholic.
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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
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I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
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Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
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Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
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I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
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I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.
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It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
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Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
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Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
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I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.