“From an early age I didn’t buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job.”

I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I’d like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

I don’t think rock ‘n roll is necessarily a young man’s game. I think Neil Young is just as rock’n’roll now as he was in his 20s.

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.

I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.

I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.

The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.