442 Quotes by Paul Theroux

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.