Decius:

I've gotten old enough that I now understand why adults seek to escape reality.

Chris Taylor:

I think that there's an extraordinary value to escapism. It's not always about escaping from something. You can be going for something -- reaching for this other world.

Iwan Rhys Morus:

It was only around the beginning of the 1800s, as new attitudes towards progress, shaped by the relationship between technology and society, started coming together, that people started thinking about the future as a different place, or an undiscovered country -- an idea that seems so familiar to us now that we often forget how peculiar it actually is.

Pico Iyer:

Part of the power of travel is that you stand a good chance of being hollowed out by it. The lucky come back home complaining about crooked rug merchants and dishonest taxi drivers; the unlucky never come home at all.

Sanford Schwartz:

If Julian Schnabel is a surfer in the sense of knowing how to skim existence for its wonders, he is also a surfer in the more challenging sense of wanting to see where something bigger than himself, or the unknown, will take him, even with the knowledge that he might not come back from the trip.