“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
