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

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.

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.

Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.

King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.

We must realize that even though the sacred text of the scriptures could never be improved or changed, flesh certainly can!

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

The music is not the truth.

Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.

Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!

Don't get me started on cold toilet seats.