Quotes from Nora Ephron

I almost felt sorry for myself. But it was time for lunch.

If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?

Now I know that there's no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far.

And the newfangled rigmarole of joint custody doesn't do anything to ease the cold reality: in order to see one parent, the divorced child must walk out on the other.

I couldn't believe that anyone would be so sexually driven that he might actually skip lunch—and after an auction! I think of myself as a healthy person with a strong sex drive, but it's never occurred to me to forgo meals.

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

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's because of hair dye.

In the middle of the dinner, a man seated next to Lavinia put his hand on her leg. She put her cigarette out on his hand. The glittering conversation continued

The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.

I'm old. I am sixty-nine years old. I'm not really old, of course. Really old is eighty. But if you are young, you would definitely think that I'm old.

Or, as E. L. Doctorow once wrote, far more succinctly "I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.

It's seems that the moment you left town, they put a wall around the place, and you will never manage to vault over it and get back into the city again.

It may seem odd to you that their coming to lunch bothers me as much as it does, but one of the worst things about finding out about a thing like this is that you feel stupid, and the idea that I actually invited them over and they actually accepted and all three of them actually sat there thinking I was some sort of cheese made it that much worse.

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five. At the age of fifty-five you will get a saggy roll just above your waist even if you are painfully thin. This saggy roll just above your waist will be especially visible from the back and will force you to reevaluate half the clothes in your closet, especially the white shirts.

Block everyone on your instant mail.

You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.

Arthur and Julie and Mark and Rachel. The Siegels and the Feldmans. It's not just that we were best friends—we dated each other. We went steady. That's one of the things that happens when you become a couple: you date other couples. We saw each other every Saturday night and every Sunday night, and we had a standing engagement for New Year's Eve. Our marriages were tied together.

Most everyone wears black--except for anchorwomen, United States senators, and residents of Texas, and I feel really bad for them. I mean, black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Siempre creemos que a nuestros padres les alcanzará un rayo y que, por arte de magia, se convertirán en las personas que querrías que fueran, o que volverán a ser las personas que eran. Pero eso no va a pasar nunca. Y, aunque sepas que nunca va a pasar, sigues teniendo la esperanza de que pase.

Hace poco vi una película en la que comían pizza para llevar en 1948, y casi me da algo. En 1948 no existía la pizza para llevar. Casi no existía la pizza y casi no existía la comida para llevar. Este

I used to think my problem was that my disk was full; now I'm forced to conclude that the opposite is true: it's becoming empty

Drop 5 large tomatoes into boiling water for one full minute. Peel and seed and chop. Put into a large bowl with ½ cup olive oil, a garlic clove sliced in two, 1 cup chopped fresh basil leaves, salt and hot red pepper flakes. Let sit for a couple of hours, then remove the garlic. Boil one pound of linguine, drain and toss with the cold tomato mixture. Serve immediately.

I tried having two purses, one for personal things and one for work things. (Yes, I know: The second purse is usually called a briefcase).) This system works for most people but not for me, and for a fairly obvious reason, which I've already disclosed: I am not an organized human being.

Terminé el guion y la película se hizo. Aprendo enseguida de la experiencia, y la lección que aprendí en este caso fue que había tenido muchísima suerte de no heredar una suma importante de dinero, porque no habría terminado de escribir Cuando Harry encontró a Sally, una película que cambió mi vida. Cuando Harry