As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin
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.
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Health food makes me sick.
There's always a source for humor.
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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 do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
