Martin Firrell Quotes

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

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

The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.

Women are much more honourable than men.

The other side of reverence is loathing.

There are many ways to be strong.

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

There is nothing beautiful or noble about death or fear.

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

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

When we speak plainly of death we stand equal to it.

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 democracy doesn’t work because they had to give it up’.

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

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