Evan Dell'Aquila

“Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' "
The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one."
" 'When is the next best time? Now.' "
"Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“The need for personal glory is like cigarette addiction: a habit that feels life-sustaining even as it kills you.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“But people have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory