Quotes by : Nick Flynn

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

Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended....

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

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

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

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,....

What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.

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

But what of Ham? It didn’t matter if he told anyone about his drunken father or not, if he chided him....