There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.