Excellent Cadavers Quotes

“I realize that I am expressing a concept that is hard for anyone who is not Sicilian or a mafioso to grasp...A man of honor...must always tell the truth.”
― Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

“People in Sicily were unsure which possible scenario was worse: that a judge entrusted with the most delicate mafia cases had sold himself to the enemy of that an honest man had been destroyed by an occult hand. Some suggested a third possibly, that Signorino was not guilty of outright collusion but that he had committed some impropriety, accepted some favor, met or knew certain people of dubious reputation, which would invariant create an appearance of guilt with which he could not live.”
― Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic