Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitzis an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth27 October 1950
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
hurt sleep responsibility
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
sex fantasy interest
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
writing punishment screenwriting
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
morning writing midnight
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
writing careers letters
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.
children abdomen excuse
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
funny food bread
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.
food people warning
While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.
writing reviews columns
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
honesty barbara frank
The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.
maturity smoking adults
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
children names long
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
new-york tourists wave
New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.
smoking romance lifetime
Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.