162 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren’t the king or queen.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren’t making it for the long haul.

I don’t mind being interviewed on television or radio.

In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances – the notion that it could not be treated with moderation – was a notion largely confined to black people.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn’t be something that interested them.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it’s only class warfare if it’s up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that’s not class warfare because it’s down; you have to talk about rich people before it’s class warfare.

Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can’t buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.