Ask your child what he wants for dinne.. Fran Lebowitz

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

Profession: Journalist
Nationality: American

Some suggestions for you :

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

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

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

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

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

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