What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot s….

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 belie….

People have only one way to be..

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. W….

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing suc….

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after….

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is..

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t ….

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble..

One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, ….

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up..

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothi….

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, ….

Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed ….

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it..

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or wa….

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 t….

When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fat….

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 ….

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..

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It….