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I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.