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

[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 recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.

When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until 1976 and then went off the air. But also I was listening to Long John Nebel. Now, Long John was what Art Bell and George Noory do now.

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

I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.

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

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