▶ "We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be."; "There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard."; "There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason."; "The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"; "The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon."; …"Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing."; "Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."; "People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us."; "People are smarter than you might think."; "One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this."; "My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true."; "It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm."; "I think people really want to be happy."; "I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people."; "I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are."; "At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point."
