When people ask me why is ‘Winter’s Tale’ a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. Mark Helprin Read Quote
I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist. Mark Helprin Read Quote
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page. Mark Helprin Read Quote
Freeing’ a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, ‘The Garden Party,’ while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. Mark Helprin Read Quote
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the ‘Soave sia il vento’ and ‘Kentucky Woman.’ We have different words for ‘art’ and ‘idea’ because they are two different things. Mark Helprin Read Quote
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 of the spirit and the mind. Mark Helprin Read Quote
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 lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. Mark Helprin Read Quote
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, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian. Mark Helprin Read Quote
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. Mark Helprin Read Quote
Unlike Hezbollah, Israel’s more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done. Mark Helprin Read Quote
