Top 30 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

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

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.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

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

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 don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

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

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.

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