Quotes from Woody Allen

Some people see the glass half empty, some see it half full. I always saw the coffin half full.

I can't deny that it plays into my poetic fantasies to be an artist whose work isn't seen in his own country and is forced, because of injustice, to have his public abroad. Henry Miller comes to mind. D.H. Lawrence. James Joyce.

What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore.

And why threaten to "take my daughter"? Should the kids be used to wreak vengeance? Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?

Chester was the most revered male in the extended family because he enunciated like Abba Eban.

Jednak zasadniczy problem brzmi: Czy co? jest tam, na zewn?trz? I dlaczego? I czy musi tak ha?asowa??

She said they should view the marriage as a learning experience and, rather than have any regrets, they should focus instead on the alimony

Wieczna pustka jest w porz?dku, je?li jest si? odpowiednio ubranym.

zdolnoÅ›ci twórcze i moc mojej wyobra?ni dalece przewy?szajÄ… mo?liwoÅ›ci zwykÅ'ego entuzjasty LSD.

while Sachs was also a liberal, he did not enjoy accompanying her to hear folk singing.

So August 4, 1992, I float up to Connecticut to see my kids as haggled by our lawyers. It's an uneventful afternoon. Mia goes out shopping while I watch a little TV with a room full of people all warned to keep an eye on me.

A realidade é chata, mas ainda é o único lugar onde se pode comer um bom bife

I shouldn't have had the waiter debone my fish," she once said at Lutèce. Horrified, I asked, "You don't want the bones put back?" I braced myself. Would I have to make that request? But anything for that woman because I did love her.

Well I've been toying with this notion: that the New York Times is the only paper with no comic strip and what if they had one and it was like Superman but when he changed his clothes he changed into a Wall Street broker.

To quote the usually reasonable and level-headed New York Times, I was "a monster." Somewhere, Kafka was smiling.

I disagreed. I disagreed with the unquestioning confidence of the truly ignorant

The next day I went for a scheduled visit with Susan Coates, Dylan's shrink, who I was conferring with to try and navigate the waters and do what was best for the kids. She broke the news to me that I was being accused of molestation and she had to report it. It was the law.

Sophocles said to never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

So what character in fiction do you most identify with?" she pressed him. Finally, he said, "Gregor Samsa." "My god, you kill me." She laughed.

No es que tenga miedo de morir, es que no quiero estar aquí cuando ocurra.

A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.

The owner, Al Capon, a small-time egg baron whose fortunes rose and fell with every new study on cholesterol, offered his pudgy hand and blew a gust of smoke my way from a panatela

I know as much about wine as I know about horses or bipolar women. The trick is to position your eyes so it looks like you're checking the year on the menu but really checking the prices.

What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore. Dylan's feelings wouldn't matter. The loss of her father, whom she loved, wouldn't matter. She would be used to exact revenge.