Top 98 Quotes by Christopher Buckley

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

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.

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

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

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.

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

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.

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

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