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More Quotes by Nora Ephron
You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
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 was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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.
Take notes. Everything is copy.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
