Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
