In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

Ulysses is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.