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I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long...

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

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I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

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.

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...

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.

I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

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.

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

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

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