Calvin Trillin

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ”

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 don't mind being interviewed on television or radio. ”

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting. ”

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. ”

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. ”

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. ”

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. ”

There's always a source for humor. ”

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. ”