Nora Ephron Quotes

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Only the young die good.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

No one should die when they're 50.

I don't drink soft drinks. I remember someone saying to me that having a soft drink with a meal is like having two meals.

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

Don't die like I did.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!