Island Retreat Quotes

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.

One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.