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

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

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

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

— Paul Laffoley

[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

I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was…

— Paul Laffoley

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

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

— Paul Laffoley

I actually challenged The Theosophical Society on their concept of planes of reality. I said, "What you're doing is, you're stacking two-dimensional…

— Paul Laffoley

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

— 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Today the patent office is obsolete.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

Both [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were preternaturally young. I mean, for a long time Tesla was a young man well into…

— 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

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

— Paul Laffoley

To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when…

— 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

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

[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