“I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of h...” — Padgett Powell Quote

“I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.”

“Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.”

“Those who know me well know that I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve like other people do. That's just the way I was raised.”

“We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.”

“Fans have to try to control their emotions, as we do as footballers.”