If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Nick FlynnWater can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn
Nick FlynnWho doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?
Nick FlynnSometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.
Nick Flynn