“alarmingly talented” – The New York Times review of The Underground City (1958)

“a hipster visionary neo-prophet, the legendary forgotten novelist H.L. Humes”  – Paul Auster, in his memoir Hand to Mouth

“a writer and conversationalist with more intellectual energy and love of life than a writer needs, perhaps.”  – John Updike in Licks of Love

“a national treasure–America’s greatest living paranoid”  – Timothy Leary

“no ordinary asshole” – his son Devin Lomon, with affection, at Doc's funeral

 a drawing by the brilliant Thomas Libetti, for the film Doc