Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

The covetous are always in want.

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.