3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin If it’s inappropriate to write about, if there’s nothing funny about it, then it’s not funny.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn’t be something that interested them.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin I don’t cook. I don’t know anything about food. I’ve never reviewed a restaurant.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin We all know funny people who can’t get it down on the page – even funny writers who can’t get it down on the page.
