Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image