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.
Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin
Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin Trillin
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California. - Calvin Trillin
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions. - Calvin Trillin
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. - Calvin Trillin
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. - Calvin Trillin
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease. - Calvin Trillin
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work. - Calvin Trillin
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas. - Calvin Trillin
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
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 … - Calvin Trillin
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 …
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