Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.

I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.

My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That's provided he hadn't died of a heart attack by then.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

I started driving really late. It was super freeing and fun to be able to just drive by myself. But the thing is, I don't really like driving.

I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

I am freaking out! I am freaking out, man!

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.