Mark Helprin

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

— Mark Helprin

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

— Mark Helprin

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

— Mark Helprin

“She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.”

— Mark Helprin

“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?”

— Mark Helprin

“The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.”

— Mark Helprin

A good river is nature's life work in song.

— Mark Helprin

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

— Mark Helprin

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's…

— Mark Helprin

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

— Mark Helprin

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was…

— Mark Helprin

“The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.”

— Mark Helprin

“We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong…

— Mark Helprin

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has…

— Mark Helprin

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

— Mark Helprin

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people…

— Mark Helprin

“Because no windows were open and the air was so still and cold that the trees dared not move for fear of…

— Mark Helprin

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you…

— Mark Helprin

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that…

— Mark Helprin

That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't…

— Mark Helprin

“They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes,…

— Mark Helprin

“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating…

— Mark Helprin

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption…

— Mark Helprin

“How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those…

— Mark Helprin

Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and…

— Mark Helprin

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that…

— Mark Helprin

“You know," said Al in a daze of hunger and cold, "when you see this, you realize that despite all the crap…

— Mark Helprin

“We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are…

— Mark Helprin

I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert…

— Mark Helprin

“Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres…

— Mark Helprin

“Harry looked at Margaret and thought that, should a woman grow old, she might still have her deepest charm. Should a woman…

— Mark Helprin

“…and she speculated that the city would be cold, completely of itself, unconscious, that its every move would be transcendent, and that…

— Mark Helprin

“Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't…

— Mark Helprin

“I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used…

— Mark Helprin

“It soon got so cold that the men rushed to close the doors. When they had shut them and the room was…

— Mark Helprin

“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who…

— Mark Helprin

“Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden…

— Mark Helprin

“Little men,” he once said, “spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of…

— Mark Helprin

“Several fireboat men were trying to board the burning ferry. They had no apparent reason to do so, for all the passengers…

— Mark Helprin

“But you won’t abdicate." Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in…

— Mark Helprin