Calvin TrillinThinkers

Capital gains is a ceiling placed on taxation which reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Class warfare is typically only called class warfare when 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.

Colonialism is mostly all bad. The banh mi sandwich is really its only good argument.

Garlic , following the Romanian tradition, ought to be used in excess to keep the vampires away.

Hard work is that into which every good idea sooner or later degenerates.

Health food is disgusting. The stuff will make you sick.

Health food is sure to make you sick.

Hometown pride is a kind of bias that we must forgive. Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in the world is in his home town is a sissy.

Insider trading is just another way of saying 'stealing too fast'.

Leftovers is what many mothers serve for for year; the original meal has never been found.

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

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