James Frey
To live with angels and chase their dreams.Collection: Dream
You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.Collection: You Only Live Once
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.Collection: Moon
There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.Collection: Broken
He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)Collection: Simple
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.Collection: Winning
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.Collection: Children
On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)Collection: Men
I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of blood from my nose, sometimes I wake scared and shaking. I read, go to museums and visit Lilly in the afternoon. Sometimes I read to her, sometimes I talk to her, sometimes I just sit and remember the times, remember the times, remember the times." (James Frey, pg.119)Collection: Dream
I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.Collection: Looks
I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.Collection: Running
People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.Collection: People
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.Collection: Ambition
You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.Collection: Conventions
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.Collection: Believe
I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.Collection: People
I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.Collection: Depressing
I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. Darkness usually comes around dinner, but dinner would be too obvious.Collection: Darkness
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.Collection: Lost Love
All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.Collection: Path
It's been great getting better with you.Collection: Get Better
My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.Collection: Hurt
Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.Collection: Fall
What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.Collection: Life
My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.Collection: Dream
In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.Collection: Simple
But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.Collection: Believe
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.Collection: Memories
In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that mattersCollection: What Matters
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.Collection: Dream
Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.Collection: Laughing
Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.Collection: Water
Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.Collection: Smart
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.Collection: Trauma
I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.Collection: Pain
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.Collection: Hate
It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.Collection: Class
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.Collection: Pain
Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.Collection: Mystery
The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.Collection: Powerful
A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.Collection: Dream
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.Collection: Crafts
To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.Collection: Attitude
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.Collection: Writing
I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.Collection: Thinking
Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.Collection: Believe
I love the process of being alone in a room.Collection: Rooms
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.Collection: Book
The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.Collection: America