Mario Puzo Quotes

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

Certainly he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not communists.

Look, we are all reasonable men here. We don't have to give assurances, as if we were lawyers.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

He was ... a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

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.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Every family has bad memories.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.