James Frey Quotes

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

I like people.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

You know when you become friends with someone, you don't even remember? When you weren't friends? You're just kinda like, 'When were we not friends? When I met you, weren't we just already friends?' I have the same thing with the Strokes guys.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.

In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, 'Yeah, Demetrius is cool, but we're gonna call you Pac.' That was it! It could be worse!

Some of my best friends now are from drama club.

I feel like that's the nature of being a young guy - competition brings people closer. That's how I bond with people.

People of same age group bond easily at various levels, as they have same concerns.

So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before.

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

It's amazing how much people want to meet the other. You just got to, you know, help make it happen.

Vogue and I weren't looking for a serious relationship at the time we met and I think that's probably part of the reason why we became so close as friends first.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.