141 Quotes by Christopher Buckley

Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.

If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'

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

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

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

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

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

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.

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.