I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. — Nick Flynn Art Copy Share Image
“Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?” — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first,… — Nick Flynn Acid Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away… — Nick Flynn About Copy Share Image
“Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you… — Nick Flynn 143 Copy Share Image
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn Should Copy Share Image
For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare… — Nick Flynn Against Copy Share Image
What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.' — Nick Flynn Call Copy Share Image
“Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.” — Nick Flynn Parenting Copy Share Image
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. — Nick Flynn Church Copy Share Image
“His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.” — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified… — Nick Flynn About Copy Share Image
“Some mornings you wake up fully in your body, and you know this is all there is--the air, the shape your body… — Nick Flynn Another woman Copy Share Image
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible. — Nick Flynn As far as Copy Share Image
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. — Nick Flynn Career Copy Share Image
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you… — Nick Flynn Enough Copy Share Image
“Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery,… — Nick Flynn Children Copy Share Image
Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick… — Nick Flynn Naked Copy Share Image
I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who… — Nick Flynn Admired Copy Share Image
That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it. — Nick Flynn Admit Copy Share Image
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license. — Nick Flynn Electrician Copy Share Image
