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

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

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

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

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."

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

At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my studio by myself since 1968 on up. And the thing is that my social life consisted of being involved in organizations like that. I would get people to come and speak, and speak myself and that kind of stuff.