You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.