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

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

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.

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

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.