I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
From Calvin Trillin
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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 never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
You 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.'
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