Mark Helprin Quote

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other time, madmen will justify their condition with touching loyalty, and surround it with a thousand distractive schemes.


Winter's Tale (1983)


To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their...

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their...

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their...

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their...