Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear And none has quite escaped my smile.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write compose or paint can manage to escape the madness melancholia the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

What is needed rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance is understanding fear that means watch it learn about it come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear not how to escape from it.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress but it's all about not limiting myself such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

When you live on the road going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

In the last analysis of course an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

Comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

The success or failure of a life as far as posterity goes seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.