Tag: Fran Lebowitz
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran Lebowitz
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz