Nora Ephron

If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.

To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.