I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

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.

If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.