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 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.

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

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.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

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