263 Quotes by Mark Helprin

Prepositions are to language as aim is to a gun.

It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.

Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've lived like a caffeinated parrot.