Quotes from 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 . . . .

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

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

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

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

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

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

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

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

Health food makes me sick.

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.

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

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