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

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.

God hears a mother's prayer.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.

The world order needs a major overhaul.

Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.