The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.
人们只是不懂我有多么热爱胜利。
我不想成为冠军。我想成为挑战者。
The Erdős discrepancy problem fascinated me because it was so simple to state yet so deep in its implications.