“No escape--like life itself.”
“Life itself is too painful to bear, Madeline had said. Sometimes, suffering feels like an escape.”
“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.”
“[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.”
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark”