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
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come