162 Quotes by Calvin Trillin

Everybody is who he was in high school.

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

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