George Woodcock

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. ”

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. ”

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. ”

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions. ”

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. ”

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. ”

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. ”