Quotes from Mario Puzo

Sometimes I'd see a movie in a private screening room. No fun. People took phone calls and messages while watching. Made jokes, talked. When I go to a movie I'm a true believer. Or I just walk out.

How terrible man had been to his fellow man could be measured by the great exodus from what seemed to be a Garden of Eden.

Do you know, by the way, that in show business the magician is considered to be completely without artistic talent?

Ta s? Ä'Æ°a cho h?n má»™t l?i ?? ngh? mà h?n không th? t? ch?i.

When he wrote about class, he claimed that people with a great deal of money had to be cruel and defensive, and that the poor ought to become criminals since they had to fight laws written by the rich to protect their money. He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution. About religion, he wrote that it should be prescribed like medication.

Everything went right for him until that final year. Then why didn't he recover? Change or die he once said. That was what life was all about. And he simply couldn't change.

This guy is a personal friend of J. Edgar Hoover," Johnny said. "You can't even raise your voice to him." "He's a businessman," the Don said blandly. "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul". Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.