A biography for Christopher Buckleyhasn’t been written yet.
“I am post-Catholic.”
“I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.”
“Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.”
“The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.”
“I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'”
“Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.”
“The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.”
“The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.”
“Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.”
“It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.”
“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.”
“Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.”
“Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.”
“If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'”
“I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.”
“I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.”
“In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.”
“I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.”
“I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.”
“People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.”