Quotes By Author: Mario Puzo

“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”

“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.”

“The world is what it is, and you are what you are.”

“I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.”

“Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”

“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.”