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?

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.

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

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.

The only easy day was yesterday!

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.