Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to… — 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