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.

- Christopher Buckley

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

- Christopher Buckley

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

- Christopher Buckley

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

- Christopher Buckley

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

- Christopher Buckley

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

- Christopher Buckley

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat …

- Christopher Buckley

I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and g…

- Christopher Buckley

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

- Christopher Buckley