A Genuine Life Skill

Here’s a lovely quote — rivalling even that one from Marc Maron — from comedian and travel writer Dom Joly:

One of the things I’ve discovered in my search for happiness is the joy and the power of quitting, of running away. I actually think it’s a real skill … It’s a genuine skill to be able to cut your losses and leave when you think, hey, that’s not working. Let’s try something else. I think that’s a genuine life skill. One of my great joys in life … is just thinking I can run away.

Later in the same interview he deepens the mystery of the Irish Goodbye:

It’s called a French exit, which I think is a bit mean to the French, but I love just suddenly thinking, you know what? I’ve gone to a party with my wife and I’ve just thought, fuck this, and I’ve just gone. And then she’ll text me and say, where are you? I say I’m at home watching telly. It’s one of the great joys in life. It’s very selfish. But yeah, that’s what I like.

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Run away! But take New Escapologist magazine with you. We’ll escape together.