"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"We do not suffer by accident."

"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."