141 Quotes by Christopher Buckley

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

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

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

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

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

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.

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