Calvin Trillin Quotes

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists....

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

Health food makes me sick.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?