E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
“I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.”
“But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.”