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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.