Martin Firrell

"I am the conscience of the 21st Century."

"Organised religion is something I find hard to follow."

"God is a concept."

"Not power not cruelty not death not winning not fighting not money not oil not war not sex not tyranny: all tyrants fall."

"The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers."

"Imagination has not saved us."

"How about we have been dead and what we must do after we die? Why we go to the churches when we are living because I think the divines and Christs are dead in the churches and provide the services, cares and merrys on our lived people. And we received the peaceful mind from them and held a better life than before."

"Surrounded by army, you think you're going to die. You can't shower because they'll find you nude."

"You have to work out how not to die tomorrow."

"Power is always temporary."

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

"Never fall for someone with a body to diet for."

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

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

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

"Everyone is as confused as I am."

"I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven’t had at least that, what have you had?"

"Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!"

"Revolutions have always started in cafés."

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

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

"Ageing is a privilege not a predicament"

"All I need is a hat and a vagina."

"Different is not wrong."

"Writing adds up to the conscience of our times."

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

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

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

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

"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."