“Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.”

“You're a coward, James.
You're running away from humanity.
You're running away from reality.
It won't be funny when they rat-a-tat-tat you down.”

“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.”

“People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.”

“Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle.”

“The air they drove through was clear and crisp. They kept the windows up and their expectations down. The call was a suicide run. They”

“Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car… just for old times.”

“After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.”

“One was there who left all his friends behind;
Who going inland ever more and more,
And being left quite alone, at last did find
A lonely valley sheltered from the wind,
Wherein, amidst an ancient cypress wood,
A long-deserted ruined castle stood.”

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”