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 [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the…

— Paul Laffoley

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe.

— Paul Laffoley

I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils…

— Paul Laffoley

The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a…

— Paul Laffoley

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…

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that…

— Paul Laffoley

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

[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would…

— 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

In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to…

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back,…

— Paul Laffoley

I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too…

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff,…

— 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

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people…

— 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

I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't…

— 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

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

— Paul Laffoley

[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,…

— Paul Laffoley

I thought George Adamski was actually a fraud. Looking at him, I found him repulsive. In other words, he didn't have the…

— Paul Laffoley

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace…

— Paul Laffoley

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think…

— Paul Laffoley

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

My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why?…

— 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

[The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they…

— Paul Laffoley

My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."…

— Paul Laffoley

I'd had the experience with Giuseppe Conti, I said, "My God, that's my movie!" I kept seeing [The Day the Earth Stood…

— Paul Laffoley

Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity…

— Paul Laffoley

Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other…

— 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

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

— Paul Laffoley

I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to…

— 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

When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties…

— Paul Laffoley

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