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

17 likes

Source: Jason Reitman, Christopher Buckley (2007). “Thank You For Smoking: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

About the author

Christopher Buckley

Author

Christopher Buckley is a satirist and author known for his incisive critiques of American politics, particularly in his novel 'Thank You for Smoking.'

All quotes by Christopher Buckley →

Same author

More quotes by Christopher Buckley

See all →

"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 all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal."

Read quote