And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the body’s shining length was inside a star, and will be again.
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
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
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.
E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them. - Christopher Buckley
E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.
Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet? - Christopher Buckley
Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?
I think that every man is afraid of his wife. - Christopher Buckley
I think that every man is afraid of his wife.
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? - Christopher Buckley
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
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
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 …
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
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…
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' - Christopher Buckley
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
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