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The existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die. — Calvin Trillin

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. — Calvin Trillin

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

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be. — Calvin Trillin

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English. — Calvin Trillin

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. — Calvin Trillin

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes ... — Calvin Trillin

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

A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed. — Calvin Trillin

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism. — 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. — Calvin Trillin

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy. — Calvin Trillin

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in. — Calvin Trillin

Long Island is the single most segregated suburban area in the United States. — 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. — Calvin Trillin

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. — Calvin Trillin

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

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. — Calvin Trillin

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. — Calvin Trillin

Your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary — Calvin Trillin

She believed in the principle of enoughness."
from "About Alice — Calvin Trillin

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent. — Calvin Trillin

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

JACKSON HAS NEVER stood apart from the rest of Mississippi the way Atlanta has stood apart from Georgia, say, or New Orleans from Louisiana. — Calvin Trillin

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom. — Calvin Trillin

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President. — 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. — Calvin Trillin

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. — Calvin Trillin

The price of purity is purists. — Calvin Trillin

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. — 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. — Calvin Trillin

Everybody is who he was in high school. — Calvin Trillin

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

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist. — Calvin Trillin

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread? — Calvin Trillin

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. — Calvin Trillin

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool." — 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. — Calvin Trillin

Health food makes me sick. — Calvin Trillin

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

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come
'Lincolnesque' just means tall? — Calvin Trillin

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease. — Calvin Trillin

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards? — Calvin Trillin

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious. — Calvin Trillin

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

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. — Calvin Trillin

I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly ... And that goes for the opposition as well. — Calvin Trillin

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. — Calvin Trillin

Why in the world are you a Republican? — Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. — Calvin Trillin

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. — Calvin Trillin

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

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. — Calvin Trillin

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California. — Calvin Trillin

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas. — Calvin Trillin

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work. — Calvin Trillin

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

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city. — Calvin Trillin

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting. — Calvin Trillin

She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness
things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice) — Calvin Trillin

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry. — Calvin Trillin

If law school is so hard to get through ... how come there are so many lawyers? — Calvin Trillin

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. — Calvin Trillin

I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed. — Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin