Calvin Trillin

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

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.

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.

I think the long interview has an important life.

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.