Mark Helprin Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.”

“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.”

“The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.”

“The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.”

“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.”

“Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.”

“Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.”

“I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.”

“The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.”

“I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.”