442 Quotes by Paul Theroux

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don’t become lonely unless you’re alone.

Reading is also a journey. It’s a process of discovery.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That’s happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn’t like it.

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

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

I don’t want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.

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

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he’s seen or thinks he’s seen.