My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.