“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

“But I escaped from reality
Escaped from the pain
I said to myself
"Some day, I'll be as I should be
Though I'm far from there now"
After such excuses, my eyes were opened
All I could do was to live in the present time.”

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

“We notice it the moment our eyes meet someone else's
We feel it when coming into contact with him [or her]
But then once
We feel weak in the knees
The wind strokes my cheeks and makes it feel real
And whispering quietly
That this is not an illusion at all”

“People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.”

“Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.”

“Making the best of things is … a damn poor way of dealing with them…. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”

“I was always pretending to be someone else… historical characters, all those I invented for myself…I act even to this day…It's the old imagination working, a kind of make believe.”

“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”