You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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

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.

One 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.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

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