Quotes by : Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting....

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

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such....

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life,....

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience....

Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself....

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.