Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

I just love my privacy.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

I believe couples should have separate bedrooms.

I do like having a private life.

I don't like to kiss and tell.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

I would prefer not to be living with anyone, really. Like, as much as I care for my special friend, I don't want to live with her.

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

I am private.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.