Kind Quotes by Paul Laffoley

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.…

— Paul Laffoley

At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to…

— Paul Laffoley

At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been…

— Paul Laffoley

I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two…

— Paul Laffoley

We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did…

— Paul Laffoley

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,…

— Paul Laffoley

I think it was because [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were part of what made up the movie, The Day the Earth…

— Paul Laffoley

I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns…

— Paul Laffoley

I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he…

— Paul Laffoley

It was on Long John's show that I heard Orfeo Angelucci being interviewed. In other words, the whole thing about the green…

— Paul Laffoley

I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of…

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's…

— Paul Laffoley

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then…

— Paul Laffoley

H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down…

— Paul Laffoley

Long John would sometimes hold his interviews in the Carnegie Delicatessen, which is the most famous delicatessen in New York up by…

— Paul Laffoley

Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the…

— Paul Laffoley

I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so…

— Paul Laffoley