Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.
Calvin TrillinI never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin TrillinYou know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
Calvin TrillinMath was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
Calvin Trillin