I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? On Fairy-Stories

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. Les Misérables

What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men. Fragments

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. Book III