579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one’s own interest in the topic has waned.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It’s not human nature.

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don’t want them to come. Stay home!

New York’s not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist – which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is – there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it’s much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn’t exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

Citizen’s Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

All of television’s appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.