Quotes from James Patterson

greeted me at the West Wing turnaround.

show up soon, too. Supposedly, he had the final plans

Don't even become a cynic. Anything but that!

Minciunile sunt fascinante pentru c? ele demasc? paradoxurile societ??ii noastre

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason," I said. "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens." My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer's

Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns.

I've always felt like we were the civilized ones, fighting against the ones enjoying blowing up kindergartens, taking down civilian airliners, shooting up shopping malls.

Pascal said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

darted in first, my pistol up. Lori came in behind me. I scanned the shitty little apartment quickly. Bedroom, bathroom, nothing. The window was open, and I muttered "Shit" as I wedged myself onto the fire-escape landing. It was a long way down. Cops with a thing about heights shouldn't climb around on fire escapes. But there was no choice.

Bennett clan—Chrissy, three; Shawna, four; Trent, five; twins Fiona and Bridget, seven; Eddie, eight; Ricky, nine; Jane, ten; Brian, eleven; and Juliana, twelve—all

persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?

been tutoring his son Ted.

Flip kept telling me not to worry so much about Miller, but Flip was Flip, and I was me. And Miller definitely had it in for ME.

Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean. My youngest's favorite show is The Magic School Bus. When we brought home the DVD, she exclaimed, "Daddy, it's a show about our family!

was thinking it might be a perfect moment for Jeanne to realize that she was meant to be my girlfriend

Relax. I'd always felt nerves, what Mom liked to call the good nerves that came with competition.

After that, I picked up a pint of Jameson at the liquor store to go with the coffee. A.A. and I called it Irish Ritalin.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are just kids who love reading and kids who are reading the wrong books. We need to help them find the right ones.

all tunnels and bridges out of Manhattan

Redwoods State Park, we'd been

When a high government official lies, he commits a horrible crime. We've put our trust in that person, based on his solemn word, his integrity.

I mean Zeke McDonald and Kenny Patel, the left and right butt cheeks of Cathedral School of the Arts.

When a skunk sprays, a lot of bystanders have to deal with the stink.