Mental Escape Quotes

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed."

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

It's nice to be able to forget.

When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

The only way out is in.

I like to shower for a really long time; that's a distraction-free zone for me.

Is there no way out of the mind?

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.