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I Was Asked By An Editor To Consider Writing Something About An American Inventor. I Asked Him If He Knew Who Invented The Computer. He Said He Didn't. In That Case, I Told Him, I Should Write A Book About John Vincent Atanasoff.

In Every Society, The Artists Will Be The Ones Who Set Themselves Up As Contrary To Whatever The Society Expects.

Well, In Fact Everybody - Everybody - In The Entire Nation Has Enough Stuff In Their Life To Write About That's Interesting That They Could Write Their Autobiography. And In The End That's Why I Find People Interesting.

When A Novel Has 200,000 Words, Then It Is Possible For The Reader To Experience 200,000 Delights, And To Turn Back To The First Page Of The Book And Experience Them All Over Again, Perhaps More Intensely.

Americans Took A Great Deal Too Much Credit For Creating Wealth, When Most Of The Time They Had Really Just Been Living Off Natural Bounty Unprecedented In The History Of The World.