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.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

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.

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