Christopher Buckley
"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."
Christopher Buckley
"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."
Christopher Buckley
"In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph."
Christopher Buckley
"The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal."
Christopher Buckley
"I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill."
Christopher Buckley
"I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'"
Christopher Buckley
"My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer."
Christopher Buckley
"I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir."
Christopher Buckley
"I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son."
Christopher Buckley
"It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor."
Christopher Buckley
"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."
Christopher Buckley
"Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical."
Christopher Buckley
"I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive."
Christopher Buckley
"Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business."
Christopher Buckley
"I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist."
Christopher Buckley
"I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8."
Christopher Buckley
"I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life."
Christopher Buckley
"Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters."
Christopher Buckley
"There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents."
Christopher Buckley
"I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him."
Christopher Buckley
"I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets."
Christopher Buckley
"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."
Christopher Buckley
"Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one."
Christopher Buckley
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