429 Quotes by Nora Ephron

Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.

I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.

When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.