Fran Lebowitz

Now, no one explained to me, this is the word.

I never saw it written down.

I get the impression that as well as asking questions, you were answering back.

Being fresh.

Okay.

The exact thing that I now get paid for is exactly what I was punished for so consistently that as a child, I almost never had dessert because leave the table.

Oh, it's happened at home as well.

Yes.

Well, this would not, so much not just with my parents, but when we went, we went very often to my mother's parents where there'd be like a thousand people at dinner, you know, my mother's cousins or, you know, all the children.

And I almost never got dessert, leave the table because you're being fresh.

Don't talk back.

I was very popular with children.

I mean, I was like, it was no problem.

I could have been the mayor of the town if the children were voting.

Well, as a child, I remember when I first realized I could read by myself.

I remember the sensation of it.

I realized, because I was always asking, could you read me this, could you read me this?

And I remember when I could actually read, actually read, not just like a few words,

And it was an incredible sensation.

It was the exact same sensation that I remember when my father let go of the bicycle.