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I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.