Quotes from lebowitz fran

Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

London -- a place you go to get bronchitis.

I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

I happen to love a good run almost as much as sex. Like sex, there are often times I don't think I'm interested until I'm into it. Unlike sex, I do have to get out of bed and into the elements. I hate leaving bed.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.