344 Quotes by Richard Powers

He can’t remember when the Web wasn’t here. That’s the job of consciousness, to turn Now into Always, to mistake what is for what was meant to be.

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It’s like I had the word ‘book’, and you put one in my hands.

The secret of life; plants eat light and air and water, and the stored energy goes on to make and do all things.

A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I’d already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.

It’s amazing how crazy things become, once you start looking at them.

We don’t consider the roles that we’re taking in making the world the way it is.

Now they need only learn what life wants from humans.

The solitary act of sitting over the page and waiting for her hand to move may be as close as she’ll ever get to the enlightenment of plants.