“As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“She's talking about condominiums," my friend Betty Searle called up to say one day. "Obviously she's involved with someone." Are you sure?"… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends. Sally Albright: Why not? Harry Burns: What I'm saying is… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.' — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image