344 Quotes by Richard Powers

If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we’d drown you in meaning.

There was nothing more pressing to do all day, every day, except think about the question that his whole life had failed to answer: How did music trick the body into thinking it had a soul?

What frightens people most will one day turn to wonder. And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected.

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival.

The trees have vanished and the town forgets. But not the land.

For the first time, she realizes that being alone is a contradiction in terms. Even in a body’s most private moments, something else joins in.

You can’t come back to something that is gone.

We’d drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.