Quotes by : Nick Flynn

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in....

I was unable to throw myself in the ocean,” she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers....

If it had been a heart attack, the new

If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but instead,....

OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative....

It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and....

Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given....

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose....

The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art,....

I’ve come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information,....