First, and before I write another word, I want to thank Jim McWilliams for his astonishing work in carefully selecting the interviews that appear in this volume and, of course, I wish to thank as well the distinguished University of Wash- ington Press for making them available to the reading public. By my count, which is a conservative estimate, I’ve given more than 250 interviews for radio, television, newspapers, and mag- azines in America, Europe, and Asia since 1978.