More From Calvin Trillin
- "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."
- "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 never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally."