And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

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.

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.

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

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.