I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are." --Nora Ephron

You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.

Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn’t; I just looked tired.

He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.

I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.

Above all, be the heroine of your life.

Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.

What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said

You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.

You can never have too much butter.

Love is homesickness.

He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.

I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

SALLY Harry, I can’t do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

I'll have what she's having

Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.

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.

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

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.