I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

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)

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

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.