36 Quotes by Delia Ephron

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be-they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex’s new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate’s ex and any new mate that your new mate’s ex has acquired.