579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.