I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're not expressing yourself, why don't you feel freer?" I said, "Well, I don't like that stuff. It means nothing to me."

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

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

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

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

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.

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