344 Quotes by Richard Powers

The bird and the fish may fall in love but where will they build their nest?

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

The great paradox of existence may be that only the dead certainty of losing everything makes anything at all worth keeping.

Character is all that matters in the end.” It’s a child’s creed, of course; just one small step up from the belief that the creator of the universe would care to dole out sentences like a judge in federal court. To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one.

And yet, places remember what people forget.

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm – threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

The ‘information novel’ shouldn’t be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Even as an infant, he hated being held. Every hug is a small, soft jail.

There’s a story he always loved, from the days when his legs still worked. Aliens land on Earth. They operate on a different scale of time. They zip around so fast that human seconds seem to them as tree years seem to humans. He can’t remember how the story ends. It doesn’t matter. Every branch’s tip has its own new bud.