[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.

I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

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

I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.