Top Highlights

• “Hasn’t your Godfather always done what he said he would do? Have I ever been taken for a fool?”
• “Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
• If the Greeks had the Iliad and the Odyssey; if the Romans had the Aeneid; if the Jews had the Hebrew scriptures, the United States had Wyatt Earp and John Wayne.
• In short, The Godfather arrived in American bookstores during an exciting cultural revolution and in the middle of a big, fat national mess.
• America seemed ready for a new type of protagonist, one who embodied the ambiguities of the times. The Godfather provided not only a new set of protagonists but also a whole new code of living.