Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzowas an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably The Godfather, which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film. His last novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 October 1920
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
it's just business nothing personal...
Power wears out those who do not have it.
Any man can turn traitor.
Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.
Every family has bad memories.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.