There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
Bill O'Reilly
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
Amy Bloom