The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your… — 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
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though… — 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 difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — 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
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. — 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
