“Most people on earth are poor. Most places are blighted and nothing will stop the blight getting worse. Travel gives you glimpses… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Tipping confounds me because it is not a reward but a travel tax, one of the many, one of the more insulting.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. — 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
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“But: all journeys were return journeys. The farther one traveled, the nakeder one got, until, towards the end, ceasing to be animated… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't… — 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
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you… — 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
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler. — 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
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a… — 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
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