Quote by Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)

• Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

• Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

• I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

• Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

• The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.