Like water leaking through a dam, " said Piper."Yeah, " smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole.""What?" Piper asked."Nothing, " he said. "Inside joke.

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.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It means you are willing to bear the imperfections and not sell out to them.

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.