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.

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.

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 know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.