Quotes from James Patterson

But once you've learned the nasty, street-fighting, no-holds-barred art of Max Kwon Do, you never really forget

He was laid-back. Drugs'll do that to a person. Take a pill and you're not really crazy anymore.

If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life.

think Cool Girl could ever really like me.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I have to admit, it is a tasty dish. Play Hard or Go Home GROWING UP, I had zero interest in being a writer.

Yeah. It's just too fricking easy to steal a child. Perv says, 'Want to see my puppy?' Kid toddles over. Perv drags the kid inside and takes off. No witness. No evidence. And now," I said, "the long wait for a phone call… that never comes.

Coffee without doughnuts is like a day without sunshine.

The point wasn't to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise

Have faith and pursue the unknown end." Oliver Wendell Holmes said that. I have faith. I pursue the unknown. That's my job description.

The next day I picked up my electric guitar and amp at a tag sale. Grandma Dotty loves tag sales, and somehow she managed to bargain with the guy who was selling them, until we paid just three dollars

They had a pretty decent hideout, too. It was a three-walled alcove in the parking lot, meant to shield two dumpsters from view. Anyone inside the school wouldn't have been able to spot them. But from there in the alley, I had a clear sight line. I stepped back and radioed Keats. "This is Hoot," I said. "I found her. She's with some friends in the parking area on the south side of the building." Some

life will deceive us with relative predictability for long periods until, at the moments when we begin to feel the most comfortable, it unfolds, reminding us how powerless we all are.

I dumped half a cup of green tea into the sink. To hell with my chakras. I needed coffee.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. As

Stevie Kosgrov recently enjoyed a bowl of Fruity Pebbles (with milk that had hit its expiration date, oh, maybe a month ago).

I liked a radical, no matter who he worked for. Radicals tended to make life more interesting.

Hope attacking doubt. It seemed crazy.

idiots." "Which

Somehow all troubles and cares seemed to diminish when you were with the people you loved. Then

Galapagos tortoise," she said. "I'm one hundred and seven years old." "Huh. And you don't look a day over a hundred and five," I said.

It was a crazy theory. But when Angels are involved, crazy is almost normal.

Lawyer's credo: Anyone can sue anyone for anything.

I still had hope. That was the key to a happy life.