Abbott for some of the guys. Guys would get into arguments over nothing and before you knew it, one of them was dead.
Actually enjoyed it. Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies.
And Jimmy was in charge of it all. Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport, tell us it was better than Citibank.
Anymore, even though we didn't have a car at 13, I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood. I mean, I had more.
Aristocratic. You know, when you think of prison, you get pictures in your mind of all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars. But it wasn't like that for wise guys. It really wasn't that.
As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster
Bring us in guilty. Judge gave Jimmy and me 10 years like he was giving away candy.
Capstan and every once in a while I'd have to take a beating, but by then I didn't care. The way I saw it, everybody takes a beating sometime.
Care of First, our neighbors didn't park in our driveway anymore, even though we didn't have a car.
Food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup.
Fucking believable, All of them. Every fucking girl in my life.
Guys that ran the games, I mean the bartender got 100 just for keeping the ice cubes cold.
Hated conferences. He didn't want anybody hearing what he said and he didn't want anybody listening to what he was being told.
He took mercy on me. He gave me 10 milligrams of Valium and sent me home.
He's organized with these guys. You know who goes to jail? Stick up, man, that's who. And you know why they get caught? Because they fall asleep in the getaway car. Karen, come on.
Hey, Paulie. Paulie might have moved slow. But it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody.
I was going to be busy all day. I had to drop off some guns at Jimmy's to match some silencers he had gotten.
If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you. Doesn't happen that way.
In that way, there weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. So your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people of camp.
It was nuts to us. Those goody good people who work shitty jobs for bump paychecks and took the subway to work every day worried about their bills were dead.
Karen, where's the stuff that I left? Karen? I flushed it down the toilet.
Knew that I belonged to me. It meant being somebody in the neighborhood that was full of nobodies.
My brother to keep an eye on the stove all day long. The poor guy's been watching helicopters and tomato sauce.
No matter what business bad, fuck you pay me. Oh you had a fire? Fuck you pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you pay me.
Now take me to jail.
That's why let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. I know what.
They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.
To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.
Tonight. Hey. Hey, Karen. Will you grow up? Stop. I'm still gonna go out. Not without your car keys, you're not.
Went wild. He'd give the doorman 100 just for opening the door. He'd shove 100.
When they were eating dinner, when they were having coffee, I was asking for a check. I had business.
Yeah, listen. Tell Michael not to let the sauce stick. Keep stirring it.
Yep, on average, nobody. Get to live the rest of my life like a Schnuck.
You know what? One of them was dead when they were shooting each other all the time. Shooting people was a normal thing. It was no big deal.
You really are a funny guy.
3200 bucks, That's what he gave me. 3200 bucks for a lifetime wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin.
