David Sedaris Quotes:
Ocupation: Humorist
Life: b. December 26, 1956
Birthday: December 26
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.
source: David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
topic: Writing, Airports, Typewriters, Cannons, Airport Security
