Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

- Nick Flynn

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet wa…

- Nick Flynn

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

- Nick Flynn

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of…

- Nick Flynn

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are mo…

- Nick Flynn

On a good day I write, all day.

- Nick Flynn

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

- Nick Flynn

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You …

- Nick Flynn

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning w…

- Nick Flynn