Calvin Trillin Quotes
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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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.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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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.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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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.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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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?
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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Health food makes me sick.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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Sarah Johnson (2008-10-17). Cookbook Corner: Healthy meals from health care workers. The Land Online. Retrieved on 2008-12-19.