Padgett Powell Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. April 25, 1952
Birthday: April 25
It'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.
source: Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012. 
topic: Tattoo, Communication, Phones
