I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

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

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.

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.

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.