When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.