"The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters."

“Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.”

Source : "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

“the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2011). “Falling in Place”, p.47, Vintage

“I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.”

“Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there.”

“Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?”

“All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.”

“He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.”

“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”

Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press