I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.

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.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.