You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[My father] was always upset that my mother didn't want to live in New York. Because he said he wanted to live… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do! — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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 in my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image