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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.