“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

“Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.”

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.”

“God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.”

“Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names… well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.”

“Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled.”

“When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.”

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”