Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

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 Quotes