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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.