119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good.

The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.

'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?