George Woodcock

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.

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

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.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.