William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

I think there are always times when people want to get out of reality, because sometimes it sucks and it's difficult.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.