A completely separate excerpt from a 1993 Paris Review interview:
INTERVIEWER:
Young people are often a target for you.
LEBOWITZ:
I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté. I mean, unless you have an erotic interest in them, what other interest could you have? What are they going to possibly say that's of interest? People ask me, Aren't you interested in what they're thinking? What could they be thinking? This is not a middle-aged curmudgeonly attitude; I didn't like people that age even when I was that age.
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