“We've all been there, that deserted island called regret.”
“Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.”
“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it had a library.”
“Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either”
“D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.”
“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”