American - Novelist | September 28, 1952 -
My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
Christopher Buckley
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I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
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You live vicariously through your characters.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
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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.
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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.
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I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.
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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
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Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.
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