Escape Quotes

There is a way out of everything, man. Just keep your pecker hard and your powder dry and the worm will turn.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape;...it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

'There's too much to escape from.'
'And no where to escape to.'

Rosabelle — answer — tell — pray, answer — look — tell — answer, answer — tell.

I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.

The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

..You must never run away. Even if it’s painful, suffocating, you must arise like a phoenix. Live as you want to live. Ignore the destiny which torments you. And in the end laugh in its face.

We can't start escaping at a time like this. What would future generations think of us?

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.