…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.