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
I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home! — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that… — 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
In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October?… — 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
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. — 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
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
I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York -… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I… — 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
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