'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
What I really like to do is to sit quietly and write. All that other stuff is a problem. Publication to reception… — 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
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal… — 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
