Frankie Arellano

“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.”
― Mario Puzo, The Family

“There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.”
― Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty

“That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.”
― Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood

“A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather