In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
Calvin TrillinThe interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.
Calvin TrillinA new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
Calvin Trillin