The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.