All Mark Helprin Quotes
- It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it,… Across
- And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful. Beautiful
- Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,… Age
- All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. Accidents
- ...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. Balance
- Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. All
- And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth… Beautiful
- If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is… Answer
- Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well. Began
- She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after… Able
- They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been… Anymore
- The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes. Cannot See
- I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find… Ball
- When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean… Ammonia
- My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside… Backwards
- I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist. Airplane
- The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most… Anarchy
- I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury,… Been
- No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work… Case
- In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the… All
- Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal,… Borders
- Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so.… Almost Universally
- To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists… American
- Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only… Architects
- The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. Actual