“You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.”

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

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

The world may need fixing, but it’s worth preserving.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Good luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)

A person’s shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.

That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up.

your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos’s traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.

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

Humans see what they want to see.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

When in doubt, start from the top. -Jason Grace

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.

Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

“You only live once” is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.