Martin Firrell Quotes

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

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament

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

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

I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.

Let’s speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

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

To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.

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

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

The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.

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.

A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.

My heart pumping 70 times a minute every minute my whole life. What a task! To reach any age in those terms sounds miraculous!