Optimistic Escapist Gifts

'You can't live like there's no tomorrow, and then live tomorrow.'

How Cecil and Moira found their way to happiness...

Woman dreaming about being on vacation.

Anywhere but here

Young Houdini

Desert Mirage

As you like it - One way of catching fish

Stress Prison - The fictional jail you imagine being sent to so you can catch up with Netflix and reading.

'Ready or Not here I come.'

"This is highly confidential, so, yes, we built a little fort."

"He went that-a-way." (snail escapes).

Man opens front door to find he's up in clouds.

Sleeping Tiger

Why do you hate blockbuster movies? Why do you hate documentaries? I don't. I love spending two hours watching the very life I'm trying to escape. Oooh, fun, bittersweet insights into the complexities of living in modern life. Document this! My camera lens isn't wide enough.

"I want to climb up mountains without a rope, jump down waterfalls and run through a swamp barefooted to film crocodiles. That's why I need travel insurance - I'm a scaredy-cat."

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he can avoid work his whole life."

Message in a bottle.

"Realism! . . . Realism!"

'If you keep running away, son, you'll never make it through your formative years.'

Man lifts up the pages of a book and discovers a brick wall.

Forget what the warden says. If we try to please everyone, we'll end up with an escape plan that pleases no one.

Ramblers Association

"Fishing and doing nothing are not incompatible."

'Maybe you're a 'man on a deserted island' cliche because you want to be a man on a deserted island cliche.'

"We seem to get just the one channel."

'Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day . . . teach a man to fish and he'll never get any work done.'

Sorry, I'm too ill to come in today. More medicine please, nurse.

Virtual Reality Check

"I have no problem with reality. It's just the occasional intrusion of gritty realism that I hate."

'A lovely area, but not enough waiters!'

Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name

Sitting Fairy

He lives in a little world of his own.

"I found your contact lens."

Castaway Building a Sand Bridge