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.
Rube Goldberg
And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
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, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
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.
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
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.
