Quotes by : Paul Theroux

As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event,....

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees....

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers -....

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people....

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After....

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived....