“It is astonishing the number of people who go around dreaming of an island. Sometimes they're deliberate people who search for their island and secure it and sometimes the island dream is a passive symbol of what lies one step out of reach. The island, privacy at last - distance, intimacy a self-contained universe without bridges and fences. Protected and isolated bv the water, which, at the same time, opens up the possibility of contact with others. A possibility never exploited.”

—Tove Jansson