I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not. — 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