You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins?… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux Copy Share
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is… — Paul Theroux Copy Share
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share
