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?
Nora EphronI have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
Nora EphronEverybody dies. Thereโs nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although thereโs no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think thereโs a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I donโt happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, โEverything happens for a reason,โ I would like to smack her.)
Nora EphronI am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora EphronOne of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
Nora Ephron