Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.