Martin Firrell

Different is not wrong.

— Martin Firrell

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

— Martin Firrell

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

— Martin Firrell

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

— Martin Firrell

The other side of reverence is loathing.

— Martin Firrell

Everyone is as confused as I am.

— Martin Firrell

Women are much more honourable than men.

— Martin Firrell

Security is no replacement for liberty.

— Martin Firrell

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

— Martin Firrell

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

— Martin Firrell

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should…

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question…

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life.…

— Martin Firrell

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well…

— Martin Firrell

I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat…

— Martin Firrell

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell

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

— Martin Firrell