Christopher Buckley Quotes
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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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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
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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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It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.
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I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
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At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
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We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
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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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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've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
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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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I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
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I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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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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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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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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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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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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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.