Nora Ephron Quotes

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

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

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

It seemed to me that the desire to get married-which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women-is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge-which is to be single again.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.