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
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
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
Any man can turn traitor.
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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.
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
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.
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.
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.