We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.

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.

...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed — thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself — and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women

Self-righteous wrath had planted more corpses in the ground than an empire could lay claim to,

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.