Quotes by : Mark Helprin

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived....

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny,....

The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything they....

Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country,....

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long....

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

I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without....

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured....

Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence....

The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often....