Accidents Don't Happen To People Who Take

When I Was Young, Some Women Told Me They Loved Me For My Long Eyelashes. I Accepted. Later It Was For My Wit. Then For My Power And Money. Then For My Talent. Then For My Mind-deep. Ok, I Can Handle All Of It. The Only Woman Who Scares Me Is The One Who Loves Me For Myself Alone. I Have Plans For Her. I Have Poisons And Daggers And Dark Graves In Caves To Hide Her Head. She Can't Be Allowed To Live. Especially If She's Sexually Faithful And Never Lies And Always Puts Me Ahead Of Everything And Everyone.

Michael Could Never Remember His Father Ever Having Uttered A Word About Death, As If The Don Respected Death Too Much To Philosophize About It.

It Was From This Experience Came His Oft-repeated Belief That Every Man Has But One Destiny.

Let Us Be Separated By Wars And Pestilence, Death, Madness But Not By The Passing Of Time.

We Are A Family, And The Loyalty Of The Family Must Come Before Anything And Everyone Else. For If We Honor That Commitment, We Will Never Be Vanquished-but If We Falter In That Loyalty We Will All Be Condemned.