Richard Powers Quotes

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every...

It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absor...

Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--l...

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

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me a...

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one sim...

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His ...

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell ...

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

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

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

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many le...

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of...

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But t...

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

And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be c...

Creation is much in need of ordering.