I Feel That Man Can Transcend Himself

Some Of My Friends Became Gangsters. You Became A Gangster Depending Upon How Fast You Wanted A Suit. Gangsters Weren't The Stereotypes You See In The Movies. I Knew The Real Ones, And The Real Ones Were Out For Big Money.

I'm Not The Sort Of Fellow Who Does The Same Thing All The Time. I Began Using A Lot Of Science Fiction Apparatus. I Came Out With The Atom Bomb Two Years Before It Was Actually Used Because I Read In The Paper That A Fellow Named Nicola Tesla Was Working On The Atom Bomb.

I Didn't Like Army Life. I Didn't Like Taking Orders. I Didn't Like Discipline. I Didn't Like Being Yelled At. You'd Get 10 Years For Punching A Sergeant So I Couldn't Punch A Sergeant.

I Was Being Brought Up On Peasant Stories; My Mother Came From Europe And She'd Been A Peasant And That Was The Area Where The Frankensteins And The Draculas Came From And It Was Entertainment For The People. Nobody Had Tv, And That Was The Way Peasants Would Entertain Themselves, By Telling These Stories.

I Came Out Of School One Day, And There Was This Pulp Magazine. It Was A Rainy Day, And It Was Floating Toward The Sewer In The Gutter. So I Pick Up This Pulp Magazine, And It's Wonder Stories, And It's Got A Rocket-ship On The Cover, And I'd Never Seen A Rocket-ship.