Quotes by Mark Helprin

• Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
• If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
• 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 letter to the editor.
• 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 have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
• The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
• 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, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.