Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
Fran LebowitzWhenever 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.
Fran LebowitzOnce you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
Fran LebowitzTelevision turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
Fran LebowitzJapanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
Fran Lebowitz