We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.