All Mark Helprin Quotes
- 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
- The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory… Alexander
- There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery. Justice
- A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls -… Anarchy
- New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil… Abolition
- The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks,… Anarchy
- Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their… Day
- The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines,… Behind
- Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. Assembly
- 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to… American
- I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current… Advancing
- Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by… Art
- He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as… Always Hears
- Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently… Age
- As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake… Beating
- Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to… Abandoned