Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
Calvin TrillinI'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
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 TrillinBefore I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
Calvin Trillin