I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

New cell phones are my weakness.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.

It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.