Nora Ephron Quote

Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

Quoted in Christopher Goodwin, "Get real – ageing's not all Helen Mirren," Times Online (UK) (4 March 2007)