Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is …
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they …
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
I wrote a great deal of a novel, Winter’s Tale, on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then …