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. – Christopher Buckley
I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush. – Christopher Buckley
As for the financial world – I’ve been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this – I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is. – Christopher Buckley
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties. – 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. – Christopher Buckley
Mum’s serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding – occasionally scalding letters. – Christopher Buckley
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. – Christopher Buckley
I’d been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade. – Christopher Buckley
Catch-22’s first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured. – Christopher Buckley
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir. – Christopher Buckley
At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn’t need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date. – Christopher Buckley
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. – Christopher Buckley
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. – Christopher Buckley
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. – Christopher Buckley
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.’ – Christopher Buckley
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin’s bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. – Christopher Buckley