More Quotes by Nora Ephron
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.
You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
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.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
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.
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
