You Have An Utterly Sincere Glance When You Look Around After You Are Shipwrecked. You Weep A Long Time On An Island When You Realize What's Happened To You.
But Here Let Me Say One Thing: From The Moment I Entered The Insane Ward On The Island, I Made No Attempt To Keep Up The Assumed Role Of Insanity.
Could I Pass A Week In The Insane Ward At Blackwell's Island? I Said I Could And I Would. And I Did.
The Insane Asylum On Blackwell’s Island Is A Human Rat-trap. It Is Easy To Get In, But Once There It Is Impossible To Get Out.
Donald Westlake's Parker Novels Are Among The Small Number Of Books I Read Over And Over. Forget All That Crap You've Been Telling Yourself About War And Peace And Proust-these Are The Books You'll Want On That Desert Island.
I'd Go To Coney Island To Hang Out, And I Saw A Magician Doing A Rope Trick On The Boardwalk. I Was Fascinated. I Guess That's How It Started.
The Royal Navy Of England Hath Ever Been Its Greatest Defence And Ornament; It Is Its Ancient And Natural Strength, - The Floating Bulwark Of Our Island.
The Residents And Elected Officials Of Long Island Have Fought Vigorously For Many Years And Spent Millions Of Dollars To Preserve The Quality Of Life That The Long Island Sound Offers.
The Long Island Sound Is An Environmentally Unique Estuary That Needs To Be Protected.
In My District, The Budget Scales Back And Eliminates Several Long-term Shore Protection Projects Important To The Safety And Economic Security Of Long Island.
We Need To Get Serious About Combating Gang Violence On Long Island, And The Entire Nation.
Dreams Were The Worst. Of Course I Dreamed Of Food And Love, But They Were Pleasant Rather Than Otherwise. But Then I'd Dream Of Things Like Slitting A Baby's Throat, Mistaking It For A Baby Goat. I'd Have Nightmares Of Other Islands Stretching Away From Mine, Infinities Of Islands, Islands Spawning Islands, Like Frogs' Eggs Turning Into Polliwogs Of Islands, Knowing That I Had To Live On Each And Every One, Eventually, For Ages, Registering Their Flora, Their Fauna, Their Geography.
