There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear 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
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up. — 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
We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're… — 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
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
We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty… — 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