Paul Theroux

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born…

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going…

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about…

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity…

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a…

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was…

If you’re a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don’t…

Travel works best when you’re forced to come to terms with the place you’re in…

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home…

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books…

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love…

It’s only when you’re alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to…

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you…

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming…

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect…