David Macaulay Quotes

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

My life is like one little Calgon 'take me away' moment.

I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.

Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel like it's irresponsible, I think sometimes you really need to take a breather.

When I am skating, economics is far away. I always return refreshed and ready to carry on.

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.

I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.