“I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!”
The Toy (1982)
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The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.”
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.”
“It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to.”
Inheritance (2011)
Context: It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
“Murder? Don't talk to me about murder. I invented murder!”
Cain, Saga of the Swamp Thing #33
Swamp Thing (1983–1987)