Quotes by Calvin Trillin

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.”

“School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.”

“Health food makes me sick.”

“Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?”

“Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictato...”

“In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists....”

“...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.”

“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”

“When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as po...”

“Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.”

“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”

“As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”

“If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?”

“There's always a source for humor.”

“With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.”

“Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.”

“School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.”

“If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?”

“Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.”