162 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

The best restaurants in the world are, of course, in Kansas City.

I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humiliating.

Irving Wallace family – they have preservatives.

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.

When you’re writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

You know, I used to say, when people say, ‘How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?’ And I say, ‘Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.’

Anybody who doesn’t think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.