Tom

“Obviously, my daily life and the events in my dreams are far apart—as different as a subway and a balloon. And just like everybody else, I’m captive to everyday life, clinging to the humble surface of the earth. Even the most powerful person, or the richest, can’t escape that gravity.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“how little we know about the brain—what Koch calls “by far the most complex piece of organized matter in the known universe.”
― Anonymous

“Denying luck individually is to suggest that we have much greater agency than we really have over outcomes in our lives.” Games give us a chance to confront luck in a manner that allows us to process it in life in a way we’re not always forced to do.”
― Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

“Asked at one point what he had done after the shooting, he replied, “I went home and ate supper.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI