"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world."
— Steven Pressfield (The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great)

"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn"
— (From the Movie Gone with the Wind)

""Power wears out those who do not have it.""
— Mario Puzo

"I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter, scraped over too much bread.~~
Bilbo Baggins on the occasion of his 111st Birthday"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"'In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,' said Aragorn: 'you still speak in riddles.'

'What? In riddles?' said Gandalf. 'No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.'"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)