Predict the future? I can’t even predict the past with certainty.
Michael Shapiro
The mob boss and the Archbishop, good and evil, are like two hands clapping, one can’t make a sound without the other to slap against.
Geanina Palmieri
Most guys, in my business, don’t live long enough to retire. We live in a jungle; and I gotta believe in survival of the fittest.
Bismarcko Donnatucci
I’ll wait for you the way a song waits for a singer.
Michael Shapiro
The only reason I didn’t die – I’m certain of this – is because God forgot where he left me.
Frank Goldstein
Ecstasy remembered is not ecstasy.
Sylvia Goldstein
I went to the cemetery a widow and came home with a husband.
Sylvia Goldstein
At the cemetery, holding his hand, I didn’t know whether I was crying for someone I’d lost or for someone I’d found.
Sylvia Goldstein
The federal government should give out free condoms to all the bullies and bigots. Maybe that would level the playing field for the next generation.
Frank Goldstein
I’ve thought so often of the words I said to you, that now I can’t distinguish between what I said and what I wish I’d said.
Michael Shapiro
Now, come my beauty, let’s go meet the beast… and God help us.
Frank Goldstein
There’s really two ways to avoid intimacy… one is by telling your story to no one; the other way is by telling your story to everyone.
Frank Goldstein
Not funny at all, but I have to laugh, or the story will make me cry.
Frank Goldstein
From torn cloth, you’ll weave yourself whole.
Frank Goldstein
Sometimes, the words we can’t say are heard by those who love us.
Frank Goldstein