“People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.”
“The phone rings.“Asshole,” she mutters. She picks it up.“Will you let me explain?”“No.” She hangs up.”
“I'll call you," he repeated."If you call me, I won't pick up the phone.""You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.”
“People have become so accustomed to texting that they're actually startled when the phone rings. It's like we suddenly all have Bat-phones. If it rings, there must be danger.”
“That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.”
“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”