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
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave… — 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
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut?? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will… — 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
When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have… — 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
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — 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