“Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.”
“I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.”
“To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence”
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”
“... he escaped all criticism but his own, which was much the most competent and most formidable.”
“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”