It’s always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody’s happy, smilimg, waving, taking...

The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.And we thought we would know each other forever.

I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I...

No gangster is ever happy when he’s at peace. The main reason he’s in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Live then, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words;...

Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful...

He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo’s taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond...

A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the...

A true gangster can smell out a person’s strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of...