If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.
Fran LebowitzTo lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
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 LebowitzIn a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.
Fran Lebowitz