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.

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.

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.