If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

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.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

I think I was unprepared for war.

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.