Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Here’s the ideal experience: that the flight attendant recognises you, but the guy sitting next to you doesn’t.

I spend most of my money on books.

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

There are two kinds of music – good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don’t want to hear.

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.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with “Let’s Make a Deal.”

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many even more things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, […]