442 Quotes by Paul Theroux

I do not want to be young again.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

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

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

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone ‘on safari’ is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.

I don’t look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren’t there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.