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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.
— Christopher Buckley
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
— Christopher Buckley
It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.
— Christopher Buckley
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
— Christopher Buckley
E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.
— Christopher Buckley
Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?
— Christopher Buckley
I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
— Christopher Buckley
Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas.
— Christopher Buckley
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.
— Christopher Buckley
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.
— 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
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.
— Christopher Buckley
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
— Christopher Buckley
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
— Christopher Buckley
The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.
— Christopher Buckley
One night in Venus, the rest of your life on Mercury.
— Christopher Buckley
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
— 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
It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
— Christopher Buckley
I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.
— Christopher Buckley
The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.
— 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
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
Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.
— Christopher Buckley
Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
— Christopher Buckley
You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't.
— Christopher Buckley
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
— Christopher Buckley
Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
— Christopher Buckley
With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
— Christopher Buckley
I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.
— Christopher Buckley
Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum.
— Christopher Buckley
I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
— Christopher Buckley
Between G and H Streets, and bore the characteristic "eagle" watermark. Ryan decided that the eagle
— Christopher Buckley
I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
— Christopher Buckley
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
— Christopher Buckley
I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
— Christopher Buckley
I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.
— Christopher Buckley
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.
— Christopher Buckley
When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.
— 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
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
In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
— Christopher Buckley
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
— Christopher Buckley
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
— Christopher Buckley
One night, after imbibing about two acres' worth of vineyard grapes, she
— Christopher Buckley
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
— Christopher Buckley
Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.
— Christopher Buckley
I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
— Christopher Buckley
Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
— Christopher Buckley
I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.
— Christopher Buckley
You live vicariously through your characters.
— Christopher Buckley
Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.
— Christopher Buckley
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
— Christopher Buckley
They embraced and parted. They never saw each other again.
— 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
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.
— Christopher Buckley
My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
— Christopher Buckley
In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.
— 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 thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
— Christopher Buckley
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
— Christopher Buckley
I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.
— Christopher Buckley
It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
— Christopher Buckley
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.
— Christopher Buckley
I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
— Christopher Masterson
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
— Christopher Buckley
My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
— Christopher Buckley
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
— Christopher Buckley
I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
— Christopher Buckley
There. But as they were in a public place and as she was dressed like a nun, he refrained. "Come, hurry!" he said
— 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
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
— 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 can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
— Christopher Buckley
I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
— Christopher Buckley
Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.
— Christopher Buckley
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
— Christopher Buckley
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
— Christopher Buckley
There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.
— Christopher Buckley
I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
— Christopher Buckley