'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Injustice is relatively easy to bear

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.