The price of purity is purists. Auteur: Calvin Trillin Copy Quote More from Calvin Trillin “By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter…” “When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of …” “understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like ‘To live fully …” “She believed in the principle of enoughness." from "About Alice”