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

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.

Thoughts don't become things

There's the bullshit you know that you know

Now that I'm here where am I?

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with your money.