Author Richard Powers has a new novel, ‘Playground’, coming out on September 24 which I am looking forward to reading. So this would be a good time to share with you some of the quotes from his previous works and interviews which I have found to be enlightening or entertaining.

Here goes:

“People, Robbie. They’re a questionable species.” – from ‘Bewilderment’

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.” – from ‘The Overstory’

“The search for truth is a lifelong journey, filled with twists and turns.”

“Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.”

“Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected.” – from ‘Generosity: An Enhancement’

“Anyone who gets righteous…doesn’t understand.”
“Understand what?”
“How hopelessly fragile and wrong we all are. About everything.”

• • • from ‘The Overstory’

“A moment of awe has the power to change the course of a lifetime.”

“Evil is the refusal to see one’s self in others.”

“Nobody’s perfect, but, man, we all fall short so beautifully.” – Richard Powers, ‘Bewilderment’

That’s all, Folks.