Nora Ephron

Everything matches black, especially black.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

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.

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.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.

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.

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.

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

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.