Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?

A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.