Hephaestus glowered up at us. “I didn’t make you, did I?”Uh, ” Annabeth said, “no, sir.”Good, ” the god grumbled. “Shoddy workmanship.

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

The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think.