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.

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

By seeing differently, we do differently

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.