Pocket calculators encourage children to think that they have all the answers. If this belief were actually to take hold they might well seize power, which would undoubtably result in all of the furniture being much too small.
Metropolitan Life | Fran Lebowitz
All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable. The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one’s soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive—you are leaking.
Metropolitan Life | Fran Lebowitz
If you’re a New Yorker and you run into another New Yorker in Times Square, it’s like running into someone in a gay bar in the 70s. You immediately start making excuses as to why you’re there.
Public Speaking | Fran Lebowitz
I think it’s very important that writers write in a real voice, in their own voice, but only if they’re really good writers. And I have noticed, and surely even someone of your years has noticed, that too many people are writing books, period. Okay? There are too many books, the books are terrible, and this is because you have been taught to have self esteem. And apparently you have so much self esteem that you think, ‘You know what? I shouldn’t keep these thoughts to myself! I should share them with the world!’
Public Speaking | Fran Lebowitz
