I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

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.

Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it.

If we born into the world, we must seek rebirth in the world.

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.

If a man is cruel, he destroy himself.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.