In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good… — 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
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
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either. — 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