At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
My first book, ‘The Age of Wire and String,’ came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
One of the things that has benefited me in my career is being part of the new age of technology: the ability growing up to get on the Internet at friends’ houses and go on YouTube and watch videos of great players.
I wasn’t treated different to anyone else, I just performed on the pitch and that helped my selection for the ‘Development England’ side at the age of 13 and I had no extra boundaries just because I was Asian.
Know that the tattoos are all significant. They’re all extremely insignificant. I can’t break each one down, but it’s 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
I think it’s fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.
I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been… Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
I’d like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that’s basically becoming limited.
I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I’m the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself.
When people age, the main valve carrying blood out of the heart becomes brittle. As this aortic valve narrows, it can cause debilitating heart failure, and even death.
People think children’s books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don’t know what to do with my books because they say, ‘Is it a children’s book, and what age group?’
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field – to enhance their physical appearance.
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn’t see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn’t tell people.
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Peroxide’ is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up – all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.
I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that’s where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
