Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

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.

When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.

'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I love the island of Majorca. I love the beach at Cala Ratjada, which is on the far side of the island where not many Britons go.

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.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.