Number is the ruler of forms and ideas.

He was a man who had always been too proud to ask for help, and now he was too proud to accept it.

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

每个人都对自己的身体拥有所有权，没有人有权支配他，除了他自己。