All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

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.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

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