God hears a mother's prayer.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

Deception is everywhere.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.