Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do. Christopher Koch agepoetrystep Change image and share on social
I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books. Terry Hayes ageaustraliabook share on social
Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together. Mary Berry agefamilyfragment Change image and share on social
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. Mary Quant ageclothedesign Change image and share on social
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility. Christine Pelosi ageboothbring Change image and share on social
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. Mary Chapin Carpenter agebearmove Change image and share on social
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old. D. B. Weiss adamagebig share on social
The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse. Seth Shostak agebadlydegree share on social
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit. Douglas Rushkoff agecivilizationcome share on social
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things. Dexter Holland ageallowband share on social