Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 December 1935
CountryUnited States of America
luxury income should
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
loss medicine weight
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
father grocers given
It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
mean unions slave
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
texas enough chili
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
father thinking yale
Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
basketball sports texas
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.
school high-school
Everybody is who he was in high school.
school law hard
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
teacher math answers
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
baseball stars ambition
The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.
years eight meals
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
drinking ambition neckties
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
football sex school
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?