Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitzis an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth27 October 1950
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
atheist people scare
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.
stealing millions
No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
advice ifs
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
funny-love best-love romantic-love
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
revenge being-alone two
That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.
circles modern-life crash
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
typewriters machines
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
falling-in-love sex love-is
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
bitterness nasty achieve
You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
edited
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.
being-old
There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
rome cities two
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
doctors self people
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
food people warning
While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.