Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.
A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
