Sam: Welcome to the island of misfit toys.
I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well as the earth has; only its mists are even more gorgeous and delicate, its aerial perspectives are even more wide and profo...
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is w...
Simon laughed heartily. “I’m afraid the rest of us have to find talents to get our women into bed. Of course once they’re there, I have other talents that keep them right where they are.” “Handcuffs hardly count,” Christian said offhanded...
I’ve often thought of the forest as a living cathedral, but this might diminish what it truly is. If I have understood Koyukon teachings, the forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the ...
Hannibal Lecter: "Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center." Sounds charming. Clarice Starling: That's only a part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful... Hannibal Lecter: [cuts her off] Terns? Mmh. If...
Don't ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.
Flames burn so long as they are fed. Rivers rage so long as it rains. The sun rises so long as the earth rotates. Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered sincerely. Hope exists so long as there is a new day. Miracles never cease so long as t...
"Long ago" did not live long ago.
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.
Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.
Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.
I adore cock and champagne together. My favourite food group.
too young to live, too old to die