American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.

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

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.