It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and…

- J. Maarten Troost

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

- J. Maarten Troost

I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to…

- J. Maarten Troost

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

- J. Maarten Troost

Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in th…

- J. Maarten Troost

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

- J. Maarten Troost

I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling rea…

- J. Maarten Troost

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

- J. Maarten Troost

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on throug…

- J. Maarten Troost