Prisoner's Dilemma Quotes

“....every boy carries a variation on hanging himself in the backyard branches in the rain. At least the one I saw did. I love nobody. I feel I am on the verge of loving everybody. Then I step outside my room. And he is waiting there.”
― Richard Powers, Prisoner's Dilemma

“He is no longer the man imprisoned by all the wrong answers at the end of his interrupted life. All at once my father is a child, as uncertain, terrified, and abandoned to the terrible abundance of being alive as I am.”
― Richard Powers, Prisoner's Dilemma

“Hollywood, without knowing it, has its most magnificent year ever. Never again will it come close to matching this year’s product. Gone With the Wind takes the Oscar. But it has stiff competition from Goodbye Mr. Chips, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, and Juarez.”
― Richard Powers, Prisoner's Dilemma: A Darkly Comic American Novel of Family, Sickness, and a Father's Secret Project Called Hobstown