Fran Lebowitz

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.