“The foolish read to escape reality; the wise surrender to it.”

“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.”

“For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.”

“Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? ”

“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”

“There is no reality but God,
says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.”

“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”