More - Paul Theroux Quotes

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Paul Theroux

 

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

 American Novelist

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

 American Novelist Tourists

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better

Paul Theroux

 

The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.

Paul Theroux

 

The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.

Paul Theroux

 

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 weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Theroux

 American Novelist

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume

Paul Theroux

 Etiquette

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence,

Paul Theroux

 Banks

Riding the Iron Rooster.

Paul Theroux