Sonja: (played by Diane Keaton) "Judgment of any system, or a prior relationship or phenomenon exists in an irrational, or metaphysical, or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself."
Boris: (Allen) "Yes, I've said that many times."
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Boris: And so I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Actually, make that "I run through the valley of the shadow of death" -- in order to get OUT of the valley of the shadow of death more quickly, you see.
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Boris: Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed? The difference is that all men go eventually, but I go six o'clock tomorrow morning. I was supposed to go at five o'clock, but I have a smart lawyer. Got leniency!
I prefer his earlier, less "cerebral" movies. Although they didn't have anywhere near the memorable lines, who can forget the following scenes:
Woody playing the cello in a marching band, or arguing with bank employees over what his hold-up note says in "Take the Money and Run."
Woody trying to order lunch for the revolutionaries in "Bananas."
Pretty much the entire movie, "Sleeper!"
Mark