I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction,… — 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 don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen. — 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
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat,… — 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
