Zitate Martin Firrell
„Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!“
Quoted in The London Evening Standard (9 August 2001).
„I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.“
"I Want to Live in a City Where..." (2006)
„Ageing is a privilege not a predicament“
Quoted by Caitlin Moran in The Times (18 June 2007).
„It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.“
Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
„The other side of reverence is loathing.“
quoting Howard Jacobson
"Complete Hero" (2009)
„Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.“
Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).
„Imagination has not saved us.“
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
„Everything is resurrected in memory.“
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
„This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.“
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
„Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness.“
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
„The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.“
"The One Irreducible Truth about Humanity" (2005)
„Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.“
Quoted in Time Out (12 December 2001).
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
„Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.“
on the topic of public art, quoted at franceinlondon.com (September 2004).
