James Frey Quotes

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might as well numb the anguish.' If you're using something to escape reality, then it's something you need to address.

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,'" says Plutarch.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

I drink to forget I drink.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.