Communication Reluctance Quotes

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

I don't tweet - I have nothing to say.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.