162 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher?Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on?

Was the Buffalo chicken wing inventedwhen Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauceand thought of elevating wings into a specialty?

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

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

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.

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

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

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.