Quotes About Escapism

I'm not a huge movie buff and I don't watch that much television, but I've spent most of my life playing video games of one kind or another.

I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.

I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.

Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played video games all the time - sometimes actually in the call centers, playing online multiplayer games. I saw friends of mine who began to feel that going online was more compelling to them than real life.

I love video games. Me and Meth are video game addicts.

Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

Chocolate isn't food; it's a drug meant to cure all.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

You lose a couple of pounds and get a guy good and drunk, you could have a hell of a good time even if you are not smart.

Stress wouldn't be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered.

when she drank she did not dream.

He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and find himself there again. He opened each bottle, began each story with the secret conviction that here was the magic drought that would restore him. But magic, like wine, needs the right conditions in order to work.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made the novel seem much shorter than it truly was.

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made the novel seem much shorter than it truly was. I

Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

I read to keep from being sad.

No queríamos pensar, ¿sabes? Y es fácil no hacerlo. Durante un tiempo.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.