When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about ….

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back..

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteris….

For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. Tha….

You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do!.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes..

I thought George Adamski was actually a fraud. Looking at him, I found him repulsive. In other words, he didn't have the wide-eyed, innocent look tha….

At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He thought he wouldn't be inv….

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so….

[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it ….

In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to create the mood. If you read "Pickman's Mod….

[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard….

The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is..

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them..

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48….

My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got in it with a 79 I.Q. an….

Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like that. What th….

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings..

[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would say if I showed any interes….

Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling in with them and stuff like tha….

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was..