Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
Fran LebowitzThere's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
Fran LebowitzI drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
Fran LebowitzThere are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
Fran LebowitzIf you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran LebowitzUntil I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
Fran Lebowitz