Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — 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
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
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
“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
“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
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,' 'Huckleberry Finn,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
