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.

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.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.