Mark Helprin Quotes

"If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Love, Music)

"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."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: People, Day, Want, Will, World)

"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."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Hope, Children, Future)

"The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Eyes, Fight, Fighting)

"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."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Life, Anarchy, Pearls, Perfection, Race)