James Patterson Quotes

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.

I'm a guy who wants to party and have as many adventures as possible.

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

Why not drive a snowmobile? I own an Artic Cat. We bought them because we enjoy doing things like that. I enjoy doing fun things, and that's definitely one of the things.

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.

I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.

I just thought it would be a fun rush of adrenaline to jump out of a plane three times.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

I've just recently started doing the promo bits for the new album, and the funny thing is that the people who come to talk to me about these things seem to be getting younger. It's like the people who like the music are all young kids and they're on top of you - they know all about what you're doing, and they're excited and animated about it. So it's a lot of fun.

I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.

I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.