Top 98 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.