Mark Helprin World Quotations

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

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.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.