Quote of the Day (Mark Helprin, on Political Memoirs)

“Americans like to devour cinder-block-size political memoirs written by ghost hacks without style for pygmy statesmen without substance.”— American novelist, journalist, and conservative commentator Mark Helprin quoted in “12 Months of Reading,” The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 13-14, 2014

The image accompanying this post was taken of Mark Helprin on Sept. 22, 2013, by slowking.