said, “The future’s anybody’s game, it’s easy. Easy 
stuff. But looking at the present and predicting 
that, that’s damn difficult. That’s what I want to 
do.” So everything he said wasn’t a prediction of 
what would happen but of what had just 
happened.

It’s interesting. You’ll find in artists, for example, 
people say, “Oh, Picasso was years ahead of his 
time.” He wasn’t, he was years ahead of his 
contemporaries. He was very much a man of the 
present. The same is true of any artist, and the 
same was true with my father. He was very much a 
man of the present. He tried awfully hard to look