"I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness."

“It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.”

“Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.”

“I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.”

“It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.313, Penguin

“When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.”

“A change is always nice.”

“I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would give them yellow roses. And if they got too loud, I would just put them some place quiet. Put them in the oven. And I would kiss them every day, and tell them you don't have to be anybody, because I would know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.”

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”