More Quotes by Nora Ephron
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
