“alarmingly talented” – The New York Times review of The Underground City (1958) “a writer and conversationalist with more intellectual energy and love of life than a writer needs, perhaps.” – John Updike in Licks of Love 
| “a hipster visionary neo-prophet, the legendary forgotten novelist H.L. Humes” – Paul Auster, in his memoir Hand to Mouth “a national treasure–America’s greatest living paranoid” – Timothy Leary  |