- Steven Patrick Morrissey: Life. In its humdrum sense is worth avoiding. It's the factory for father, and the kitchen for mother. It's arguments at the dinner table. Missing children on the news. And through it all, a sense that things are slowly falling apart. Is it better to choose another record, to flip the lid on the pills and wait for something to happen? Is it better to turn out the lights, climb under the covers, until sleep invites you to a world you've always wanted? Is it better than the one that's in front of us?
- Steven Patrick Morrissey: The past is everything I have failed to be.It was the ease of doing nothing over the fear of doing something. Do I carry those defeat sand emerge with a flag of victory? It could be the start of something.Even though the world does not want your dance and your glitter. Men were born to pray and save. Romantic England's dead and gone. It's with Jane Austen in the grave.
- Anji Hardie: There's no use bottling things up.Life is too short.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey: For cliches.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey: If there was ever a revolution in England, we'd form an orderly queue at the guillotine.Nothing worth doing in life involves repetition. It's the mind that matters. The mind allows us to think and feel and see the beauty of things where others can only see crank bearings and spark plugs.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey: The most used noun in the English language is time. And I'm running out of it. You win, Christine. You've won. Some of us want to dream and keep on dreaming.Think of us. And protect us. The lion and the lamb shall lie down together. Down together we go.
- Elizabeth Morrissey: You are the only version of yourself in existence.There is no replica of you.You just have to be who you are. Isn't that worth life?
- Steven Patrick Morrissey: I sometimes feel like the subject of a Lowry painting.Returning to the real world is like stepping into a cold shower. And the people less so. And your ambition is to start each day and still exist by the end of it. At least Lowry had smog. We've got nothing to choke on.