Calvin Trillin – 15 Quotes

15 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

Health food makes me sick.

– Calvin Trillin

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.

– Calvin Trillin

Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food.

– Calvin Trillin

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

– Calvin Trillin

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

– Calvin Trillin

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

– 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

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

– 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

If it’s inappropriate to write about, if there’s nothing funny about it, then it’s not funny.

– 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

There’s always a source for humor.

– 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

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

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