579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

And I thought, You know, Fran, you could go away and you could be in a very beautiful place with a cook, but then you’d have to be a good guest. I would much rather stay here and be a bad guest. And, believe me, I am being a bad guest.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

I have known...only one really, really good writer in my life who loves to write. Only one...Most people who love to write are horrible writers, so of course they love to write.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand there must be a reason for this.

Chocolate is an excellent flavor for ice cream but both unreasonable and disconcerting in chewing gum.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

The customary way for white people to think about the topic of race—and it is only a topic to white people—is to ask, “How would it be if I were black?”…..The way to approach it, I think, is…to seriously consider what it is like to be white.

Red is frequently associated with passion because it is the color of fire. Those who take this seriously need to be reminded there is such a thing as arson.