Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”“Tempting, ” Percy called down.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.

Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

There's no gain, without pain.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.

Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

Iniesta doesn't dye his hair, he doesn't wear earrings and he hasn't got any tattoos. Maybe that makes him unattractive to the media but he is the best.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.