James Frey (born September 12, 1969) is an American writer and businessman.
The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
I love the process of being alone in a room.
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.
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.
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
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.
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
. . . if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.
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)