Quotes from Fran Lebowitz

My favorite animal is steak.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

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.

There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.