Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
Fran LebowitzMy desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran LebowitzNever relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitzif you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
Fran LebowitzI used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
Fran LebowitzScience has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.
Fran Lebowitz