442 Quotes by Paul Theroux

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.