Martin Firrell Quotes

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Everyone is as confused as I am.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

Women are much more honourable than men.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

Different is not wrong.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

The other side of reverence is loathing.