The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until… — 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
“It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew… — 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
In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch… — 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
Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank,… — 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
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“This is not my favorite way to wake up. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I open the refrigerator. I decide against the half a lemon and jar of Gulden’s mustard and on the spur of the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it… — 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