Quotes About Calvin Trillin

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

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.

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

But my subconscious mind--the part I've heard writers call the lizard brain--could and did: it told me to reach for Anne Lamott or Edith Wharton or Calvin Trillin instead. And if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned. Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand. By Rand's eerie theories he's fervently gripped, So he won't do flip-flops. He long ago flipped.

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

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

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists....

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 . . . .

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.