Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley
grateful writing cutting
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
awful disaster prelude
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
smoking arguing argument
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
against guns reacting
He doesn't like being told what to do. He's reacting against the neo-Puritanism that you mustn't smoke, you mustn't drink, guns are bad.