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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.

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas.

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.

I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

One night in Venus, the rest of your life on Mercury.

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

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.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

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.

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

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.

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't.

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum.

Between G and H Streets, and bore the characteristic "eagle" watermark. Ryan decided that the eagle

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

One night, after imbibing about two acres' worth of vineyard grapes, she

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

You live vicariously through your characters.

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.

They embraced and parted. They never saw each other again.

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.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.

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.

The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.

Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.

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.

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

There. But as they were in a public place and as she was dressed like a nun, he refrained. "Come, hurry!" he said

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.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.