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
issues government people
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
taxation way gains
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
book writing lunch
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
school jockeys remember
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
knowing people age
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.
life inspiration sick
Health food makes me sick.
tattoo cry
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
writing inappropriate source
There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
class interesting people
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.
brother president politics
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.
mean gestalt may
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.
funny astrology errors
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
people finals sitting
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!
cities kansas-city long
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.