I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
From Christopher Buckley
I am post-Catholic.
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.
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.
It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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.'
I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
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