344 Quotes by Richard Powers

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you’re free.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

I wouldn't need to be so very different for sun to seem to be about sun, for green to be about green, for joy and boredom and anguish and terror and death to all be themselves, beyond the need for any killing clarity, and then this--this, the growing rings of light and water and stone--would take up all of me, and be all the words I need.

When the people come for you, your choice is already made. All you can do is lift up the light God sets in your hand. That light don’t belong to you anyway. It’s not yours to hide.

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

Life became an interruption of my description of it.