If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home! — 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
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
In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October?… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone… — 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 stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I… — 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
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone… — 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
there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad… — 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
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