People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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