All Mark Helprin Quotes
- I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than… Clever
- The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the… All
- Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Commanding
- Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,… Clearing
- From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It… Alone
- If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Inspirational
- Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long… Common
- No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are… Dark
- Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred… Absorb
- I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems… Best
- I have been fighting over commas all my life. All
- To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. Arrived
- ...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered… Appropriate
- Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high. All
- Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a… Alone
- There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a… Alive
- Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would… Cavalier
- I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee. Coffee
- I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary. Book
- It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid. Curiosity
- I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing… Bolivia
- How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in… Beauties
- And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait… All
- When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the… All
- Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the… Accident