Nora Ephron Quotes

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

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

When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different.

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything in between would just be an intermission. I'd spent all those years imagining what New York was going to be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical, fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live; a place where if you really wanted something you might be able to get it; a place where I'd be surrounded by people I was dying to know; a place where I might be able to become the only thing worth being, a journalist. And I'd turned out to be right.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.