344 Quotes by Richard Powers

Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.

It was like so, but wasn’t.

Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.

Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.

Life will not answer to reason. And meaning is too young a thing to have much power over it.

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere.

Now they need only learn what life wants from humans. It’s a big question, to be sure. Too big for people alone. But people aren’t alone, and they never have been.

What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?

I’d like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I’m doing. That’s one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.