Calvin Trillin People Quotations

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

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.

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

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.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

The 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.

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!

It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to do it more by herself. Somebody told me there's an African blessing, 'May we be buried by our children.' It's obviously the hardest loss.