Paul Laffoley

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

— 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

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 met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr.…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— 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