Brin-Jonathan Butler

You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.