Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. “No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.