Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

— Paul Laffoley

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

— Paul Laffoley

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

— Paul Laffoley

I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.

— Paul Laffoley

You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do!

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're…

— Paul Laffoley

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf,…

— Paul Laffoley

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you…

— Paul Laffoley

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

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

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I…

— Paul Laffoley

Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird…

— Paul Laffoley

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

— 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

As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the…

— 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

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

When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until…

— Paul Laffoley

[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he…

— 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 started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is…

— Paul Laffoley

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and…

— 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

Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling…

— Paul Laffoley

I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius…

— Paul Laffoley

I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician…

— 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

The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes…

— Paul Laffoley

While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what…

— Paul Laffoley

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

— Paul Laffoley

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

— Paul Laffoley

The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is.

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's…

— Paul Laffoley

I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once,…

— Paul Laffoley

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

— Paul Laffoley