Calvin Trillin Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Health food makes me sick.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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.
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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 politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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Calvin Trillin
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05 December, 1935
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