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

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns…

— 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

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

— 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

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

Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same…

— Paul Laffoley

I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the…

— Paul Laffoley

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— 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

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