Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In a heaven state there is no religion, meaning that you're seeing the whole thing ... I mean, to worship something means that it's something beyond you, right? In other words, it's not being revealed to you.

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

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

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

Long John would sometimes hold his interviews in the Carnegie Delicatessen, which is the most famous delicatessen in New York up by Carnegie. Let's see, 57th Street, you're down to like 50th Street and 7th Avenue... You'd go in there and everybody would be eating a heart attack on a plate, pastrami, malts, that kind of stuff. But it literally was the place where Woody Allen would go.

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

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