“Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.”
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
“Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.”
“People read to escape reality. I write to give them realities to escape to.”
“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the outside world. The printed word evokes the modern notion of security, with the emphasis on detachment, privacy, autonomy, predictability, and enclosed artificiality.”