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.’ Calvin Trillin Read Quote
If it’s inappropriate to write about, if there’s nothing funny about it, then it’s not funny. Calvin Trillin Read Quote
I don’t cook. I don’t know anything about food. I’ve never reviewed a restaurant. Calvin Trillin Read Quote
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. Calvin Trillin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
