Fran Lebowitz

Born 1950

From Morristown, New Jersey, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction

American author, public speaker, and actor.

Quotes

“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don’t know won’t hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
Metropolitan Life, p. 91
“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.”
Social Studies
“Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.”
Metropolitan Life, p. 221
“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.”
Metropolitan Life, p. 101
“The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.”
Social Studies

Books by Fran Lebowitz in the order they were published, from Metropolitan Life (1978) to Un día cualquiera en Nueva York (2022).