Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.

And you, Percy, are my favorite son.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

I like my coffee the way I like my women: after waiting impatiently in a long line.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.