162 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family – they have preservatives.

There’s always a source for humor.

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.

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

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

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

The way I read Billy Carter’s testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I’d head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come ‘Lincolnesque’ just means tall?