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
food wine law
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
alcohol drug age
I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
children nice people
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
mean home thinking
You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?
paris matter remember
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
gregarious solitary sociable
I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.
friends kindness thinking
It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
friends responsibility thinking
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.
real japan numbers
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
new-york hate people
In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
food cake white
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
government interesting democracy
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
writing fate car
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.
games phones people
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.