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.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.