The only strange thing about Jackson was the tattoo on the inside of his forearm - a trident as dark as seared wood, with a single line underneath and the letters

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

Annabeth shook her head. "All these years sneaking around, and we could've just been ourse

Annabeth frowned. "Percy's sword is a

Congratulations, man. What's her name?""Estelle. It was my grandmother's name. Um, on my mom's side, obviously. Not Poseidon's.""I approve, " Alex said. "Old-fashioned and elegant. Estelle Jac

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

Now I know

Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.