Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?

I don't have a computer. I never have had one.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

Bare feet are the best shoes!

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.