01UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedSomeone 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedSchool plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
05UndatedDaddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
06UndatedBecause 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedIn 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 / quote ↗
08Undated...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
09UndatedIf law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
10UndatedWith humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
12UndatedI never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen 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.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
15UndatedI never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
16UndatedAs far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.Calvin Trillin / quote ↗
