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 find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse (The Godfather)
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...
Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.