579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.