162 Quotes by 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.

I’ve written three books you could think of as memoirs.

I’m more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Reporters also tend to love trials. It may be that we are transfixed by a process in which the person being asked a question actually has to answer it. He cannot say he would rather not comment. He cannot tell an anecdote on a different subject. He has to answer the question – under oath that he is telling the truth.

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

I don’t care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

I’m in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I’d let just about everybody in except the English.

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing – tightrope walking comes immediately to mind – but it’s difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

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