There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
Padgett PowellIf you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you werenโt, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
Padgett PowellIt's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.
Padgett Powell