“Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the audience of this tale, numbers still are attached to objects.”
“The number 12 is good, the number 123 is better, but the number one is still the best.”
“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself.”
“Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.”
“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.”