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.

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

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.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.