“...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.”
Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia
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Famous Paul Theroux Quotes
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
Source: Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
“He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.”
Source: Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.”
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
“It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.”
“Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.”
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.”
“The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.”
Source: Picture Palace: A Novel
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.”
Source: Ghost train to the eastern star: on the tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.”
Source: The Best American Travel Writing 2001
Source: Sunrise with Seamonsters
Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
“What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.”
Source: The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
“All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.”
Source: The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
“The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
“Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.”
Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
“Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
“One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
“Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Source: Sunrise with Seamonsters