Conor McPherson Quotes

“I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I'm determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that's very hard to achieve.”

“Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”

“The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoy’s famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it takes to write it. But as with most generalizations, a truth lies behind it. Ultimately, what binds the rich together is that they have more money, lots more. For one reason or another, the poor don’t have enough of it. But poverty doesn’t bind the poor together as much as wealth and the need to protect it bind the rich. If it did, we would hear the rattle of tumbrels in the streets. One hears mutterings, but the chains have not yet been shed.”

“Love that Literature.”

“His love is like an unquenchable fire and He refreshes with living waters. I thirst daily and go to the well to drink and be consumed”

“Keep fit and have fun!" ~Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod”

“If you really think that the enviroment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.”

“I'd rather be rich and healthy than poor and sick.”

“The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".”

“Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.”