Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.

Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

I'm the only president you've got.

He too knows how to lose.