Tom Morton

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Polina Marinova Pompliano, Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world’s most successful people

“Being kind to yourself while eating ice cream is healthier than hating yourself while eating a salad.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

“It was astonishing, Lara thought, the sheer outpouring of human desire. The need to record, to create, to be acknowledged. Read me read me read me. The queries tsunamied her inbox, twenty to thirty a day. Girl-meets-boy. Poor-kid-gets-rich. Rich-kids-go-bad. Boy-saves-the-world. Boy-writes-a-bestseller-then-gets-writer’s-block-but-lives-in-a-gorgeous-condo-while-his-girlfriend-helps-him-figure-it-out. Girl-meets-girl. Dog dies. First love. First fuck. Bad parents. Bad husbands. Bad habits. War. War. War. Robots. Fairies. Vampires. Dragons. Change centuries. Tell-alls. Tell-nothings. Pride and Prejudice on a ranch, at a mall; swap out the sisters for men, dogs, parakeets. Change countries. Add zombies. Repeat.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals