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

Pray for guidance and follow your intuition.

The love for books is a paradise.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

If you believe in the project, you have to support it.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.