“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part.”

“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.”

“Wild Cat Island”

“The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.”

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”

“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN”

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.”