Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.