“Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?” -- Nora Ephron (5/19/1941 - 6/26/2012), from her book "I Feel Bad About My Neck, And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman" (2006).
A screenwriter ("Silkwood," "Heartburn," "When Harry Met Sally") and director ("When Harry Met Sally," "You've Got Mail"), Ephron was a three-time Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe and Tony award winner. The Tribeca Film Festival created the Nora Ephron Prize in 2013 in her honor for a "distinctive voice" by a woman writer or filmmaker.
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