Fran Lebowitz

They had to keep the storefront.

It was landmark.

And I don't know what's in there now, some T-shirt store or something like that.

and i lived uh in the village at the time and a friend of mine said came to my apartment she said i'm taking you uptown i want to show you something so i said what we got in a cab not my regular form of transportation um and when we started to get further uptown she she gave me like a scarf she said tie this around your eyes so i did we get out of the cab she like leads me to

She said, take the scarf off.

And the whole window was my book.

And I was like so... First, I was shocked.

It didn't seem like a real thing to me.

You know, I would have been thrilled if there was one copy.

But it was a whole window.

And that was like one of the most fantastic moments of my life.

A moment of joy.

Truly.

A moment of sadness.

There have been many.

There really have been many.

I like...

Like, I could not pick out the saddest moment of my life.

Well, because there are far fewer moments of joy than there are of sadness.

Like, I would say that I was quite, I mean, so many people have died, you know, not just my parents, but I mean, when Toni died, even though I knew.