Quotes from Mario Puzo

Michael stood up and yelled, "You lousy bastard, he's my father. I'm not supposed to help him? I can help. I don't have to go out and kill people but I can help. Stop treating me like a kid brother.

When he had been made the acting Consigliori, the other powerful Sicilian Families referred contemptuously to the Corleone Family as the "Irish gang." This had amused Hagen.

Drugs kept people alive in a realm of dreams and hope.

this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.

Strangers decide their lives.

Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.

Dad always said don't take it personally. Dad told you that because it was what you needed to hear. Dad always told me if a bird flies over you and shits on your shoulder, take it personally.

Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly.

Great men have allied themselves with the angels at a terrible price to themselves. Evil men indulge their slightest whim for small satisfactions while accepting the fate of burning in Hell.

My friend," he said, "people like you and me meet face to face and kill each other. Our enemies are behind us." He let his hand fall. "Our enemies are behind us," he repeated bitterly, "and commit the crimes for which we die.

An intelligent, reasonable man in most cases has nothing to fear from women. You must beware of two things. Number one and most dangerous: the damsel in distress. Two: a woman who has more ambition than you do.

Fill my head with any thoughts but those that fill it now.' She could not yet cry, for her tears were far too deep to reach.

The Communists and Socialists, those misguided liberals, must be fought against, and that takes money.

Kay laughed. "Then why do you go every single morning?" In a completely natural way, Mama Corleone said, "I go for my husband," she pointed down toward the floor, "so he don't go down there." She paused. "I say prayers for his soul every day so he go up there." She pointed heavenward.

The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then." It

You don't know women, Pippi said. if they like you, you can piss in the sink. If they don't like you, you can make them the Queen of England and they'll shit on you.

What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that.

Michael grinned. "Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.

jak w?a?ciwie nale?a?o ?y? - szcz??liwie czy moralnie?

Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are some people who delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past," he remembered the Don lecturing him. "You must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future

If by some misfortune an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies - the Don raised his arm, finger pointing at Bonasera - and then, believe me, they would fear you.

And now, as he looked deeply into Nicole's eyes, he determined she was telling him the absolute truth.