In a 1992 interview with Walter Isaacson of Time about his then-new relationship, Allen delivered the line that became explosively famous for its fatuous dismissal of his moral shortcomings: “The heart wants what it wants.” It was one of those phrases that never left your head once you’d heard it; we all immediately memorized it whether we wanted to or not. Its monstrous disregard for anything but the self. Its proud irrationality.
