It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.