“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

“God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals”

“Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.”

“I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.”

“Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them”

“At that moment Sonny noticed that the other car had not kept going but had parked a few feet ahead, still blocking his way. At that same moment his lateral vision caught sight of another man in the...”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”