Calvin Trillin Quotes

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
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.
Calvin Trillin
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.
Calvin Trillin
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....
Calvin Trillin
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.
Calvin Trillin
Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?
Calvin Trillin
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.
Calvin Trillin
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.
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.
Calvin Trillin