To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran Lebowitz Read Quote
