Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — 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
Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in… — 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
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing. — 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