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The existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.
— Calvin Trillin
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
— Calvin Trillin
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
— Calvin Trillin
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes ...
— Calvin Trillin
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.
— Calvin Trillin
Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
— Calvin Trillin
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
— Calvin Trillin
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
— Calvin Trillin
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
— Calvin Trillin
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
— Calvin Trillin
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.
— Calvin Trillin
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
— Calvin Trillin
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.
— Calvin Trillin
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
— Calvin Trillin
She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from lonelinessthings her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice) — Calvin Trillin
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
— Calvin Trillin
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
— Calvin Trillin
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.
— Calvin Trillin
Health food makes me sick.
— Calvin Trillin
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come'Lincolnesque' just means tall? — Calvin Trillin
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
— Calvin Trillin
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
— Calvin Trillin
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?
— Calvin Trillin
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
— Calvin Trillin
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
— Calvin Trillin
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
— Calvin Trillin
I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly ... And that goes for the opposition as well.
— Calvin Trillin
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
— Calvin Trillin
Why in the world are you a Republican?
— Calvin Trillin
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
— Calvin Trillin
