Mark Helprin

“I work with a great deal of discipline, although I usually take on more than I can handle and often have to…

— Mark Helprin

No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special…

— Mark Helprin

“The rich died, too, disappointing all those who thought that somehow they didn't. Peter Lakes had no illusions about mortality. He knew…

— Mark Helprin

“But, Catherine, everything's that true despite us - the things they're talking about, natural laws - will always remain true despite us.…

— Mark Helprin

“Beverly had thought how strange and wonderful it would be if the earth were hurled far from its orbit, into the cold…

— Mark Helprin

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend…

— Mark Helprin

“In fact, one might make the case that New York would not have shone without its legions of contrary devils polishing the…

— 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

“They would go about town sighing and talking to themselves. "I love you," they would say to the imagined beloved, though it…

— Mark Helprin

“Isn't Mr. Cecil Wooley the fattest, slittiest-eyed thing you've ever seen? And don't you suppose that being called Reverend Doctor Mootfowl is…

— Mark Helprin

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

— Mark Helprin

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when…

— Mark Helprin

All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come…

— Mark Helprin

“All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse.…

— 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

“What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would…

— Mark Helprin

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the…

— Mark Helprin

“When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them." "Why?" Luciana asked. "Because you come to love your children…

— Mark Helprin

“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than…

— Mark Helprin

“Evidently, rigging cables is therapy for the Swiss: or part of their theology. What was it that he used to say? A…

— Mark Helprin

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge,…

— Mark Helprin

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

— Mark Helprin

“A horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”

— Mark Helprin

“Shall I show you the half-dozen other rooms in this hospital where these scenes are repeated? And what of the other hospitals?…

— Mark Helprin

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