579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.