Quotes from James Frey

No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.

There is truth, and that is all that matters. The truth.

In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angeles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a cookie with a positive message in it would raise the spirits of the city's poor.

God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

In 1935, the Los Angeles Police Department, via mayoral directive, sends a battalion of police officers to the Nevada border to stop hitchhikers, primarily Mexican nationals, from entering the state of California. They return after four days and report that they were unable to stem the flow of immigration.

Don't tell people the way, just show them the results.

I know people might think I'm strong or tough, but I'm really not. I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Show me what's in your heart and your eyes. I don't give a fuck about the color of your skin or the God you worship.

he sits and waits and hopes that at some

We're going to hang up. You're going to call her. You're going to tell her that you love her, that you want her to move to Los Angeles, that you can't live without her. Then we're having dinner. I laugh. What if she doesn't love me or she doesn't want to move here. Then we will have a miserable dinner.

I don't believe she's in Heaven and I don't believe she's in a better place. She's dead and when we're dead, we're gone. There are no blinding lights, there is no happy music, there are no Angels waiting to greet us.

Blood is blood and it's all red. Show me what's in your heart and in your eyes.

I can deal with my life on those terms. It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult inless I allow it to be. A second is no more tha a second, a minute is no more tha a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time wil pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Din't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

I want to run or die or get fucked up

that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.

No matter how bad or difficult life becomes, if you hold on, hold on to whatever it is you need to hold on to. If you hold on, just hold on, life will get better.

as he reads the articles he talks about the writers, most of whom he knows from his days as a fighter, and he calls the ones he doesn't agree with names like feckhead, grasshole or kicksucker.

That was the way it worked there. Blame the fuck-up, feel sorry for the football Hero.

In here laughing is the only drug. Laughing or love. They are both drugs.

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.

A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only portion of Gandhi's remains that are kept anywhere outside of India.

Live and let Live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay. --James Frey

You want worship for what? For what you give? For how you treat us? For what you allow to happen? For the hatred that exists that you don't stop? For the violence that you don't stop? For the death that you don't stop? Man killing man killing women killing children that you don't stop. And you want worship? You want us on our knees? You want devotion? You want exaltation? You want faith? A crown of thorns pressed into the skull bleeding at the tips.

He changed my life in so many ways. I didn't want to let go. I didn't want that moment to end and I didn't want that feeling to ever leave me. But all things leave us, all people, all feelings, no matter how much we want them to stay, no matter how tight we hold on to them. We lose everything in life at some point. I lost that moment the instant I let go of his hand.