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

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.

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

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.

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

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