Mark Capell > Mark's Quotes

“Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.”
― Clive James, Falling Towards England

“Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I’d left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.”
― Mark Capell, MYLES UNDERCOVER - four adventures for the actor turned cop

“In the main café area next door, Delilah is coming to the end of Moonlight Sonata. The final notes are deep, sad — placed in a way only Beethoven knows how to place notes. They drill a hole in my stomach and place a lead weight there. If death has ever been portrayed in music, it’s in those final bars. And yet, at the same time, they’re so beautiful.”
― Mark Capell, Cafe Insomniac

“I settle for a radio station that’s currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.”
― Mark Capell, Cafe Insomniac

“What would be the point of safety measures? What’s the point of a man balancing on a wire if there’s no risk of his life coming to a premature end? Where’s the danger in that? Where’s the spectacle?”
― Mark Capell, Cafe Insomniac