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
party admire
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
dog men thinking
A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
typewriters machines
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
science answers problem
modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.
falling-in-love sex love-is
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
museums perfect quests
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
bitterness nasty achieve
You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
morning new-york cities
To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.
years sober ill
I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.
edited
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.
ideas people human-nature
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
morning sleep firsts
I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
two people boss
Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.
being-old
There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.