Quotes About Escape

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.

I fell in love with the Maldives. It's a beautiful place!

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

The only person I've been able to get to go up with me, who looks forward to it as much as I do, is my wife. Whenever we want to get away, we can just get in a plane and fly off.

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.

I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.