“They would go about town sighing and talking to themselves. "I love you," they would say to the imagined beloved, though it… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“...what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The spark of life is not gain. Nor is it luxury. The spark of life is movement. Color. Love. And furthermore...if you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“They were already in love and both of them knew it, but for both it was too fast.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“To be in New York on a beautiful day is to feel razor close to being in love.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The world had courage, faith, beauty, and love, and it had music, which, although not merely an abstraction, was equal to the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes love is taken away unjustly, but not until the very end do you stop believing and then it is very bitter.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating it, as… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old?” “No.” “Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music;… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
