And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal…

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

— Richard Powers

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely…

— Richard Powers

“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.”

— Richard Powers

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

— Richard Powers

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step…

— Richard Powers

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

— Richard Powers

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

— Richard Powers

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

— Richard Powers

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for…

— Richard Powers

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

— Richard Powers

Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century…

— Richard Powers

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do…

— Richard Powers

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

— Richard Powers

“Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici. I do no harm by remaining here.”

— Richard Powers

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

— Richard Powers