Christopher Buckley Quotes

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

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 love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

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 hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.