Quotes by : Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice....

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity....

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor.....

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not....

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.....

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would....

...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you....

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts....