Famous Paul Theroux Quotes

  • Last days? Don’t they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere. – Paul Theroux

    Last days? Don’t they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.– Paul Theroux

  • You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. – Paul Theroux

    You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.– Paul Theroux

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

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

  • There’s always a way if you’re not in a hurry. – Paul Theroux

    There’s always a way if you’re not in a hurry.– Paul Theroux

  • Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. – Paul Theroux

    Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.– Paul Theroux

  • Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. – Paul Theroux

    Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.– Paul Theroux

  • In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough. – Paul Theroux

    In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.– Paul Theroux

  • If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there. – Paul Theroux

    If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.– Paul Theroux

  • Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

    Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.– Paul Theroux

  • Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

    Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.– Paul Theroux