Quotes by : Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having....

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who....

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give....

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every....

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm....

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest....

One of my luckiest instincts lay in being able to tell when I was happy— at the time, not afterwards.....