“Nice creepy reptile,” Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.”

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.

dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.

See you on the other side. -Percy Jackson

Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.

I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn’t aware of my destiny.

I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that’s happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I’m saying.

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

As soon as I start to write I’m very aware, I’m trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this poem, a stranger. So when I’m writing – and I think that this is important for all writers – I’m trying to be a writer and a reader back and forth.

I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

It is possible to be aware of God at all times.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.