19 Quotes By Calvin Trillin


Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin on diet

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.
Calvin Trillin on family

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.
Calvin Trillin on food

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Calvin Trillin on food

Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin on food

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.
Calvin Trillin on food

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.
Calvin Trillin on food

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Calvin Trillin on food

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
Calvin Trillin on food

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin on food

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.
Calvin Trillin on funny

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.
Calvin Trillin on funny

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
Calvin Trillin on funny

Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin on health

There's always a source for humor.
Calvin Trillin on humor

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

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin on imagination

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
Calvin Trillin on politics

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