Quotes by : Richard Powers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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