The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.
I am happy being what I am. - Paul Theroux
I am happy being what I am.
- 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.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. - Paul Theroux
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
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.
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. - Paul Theroux
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life - Paul Theroux
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstance… - Paul Theroux
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstance…
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading. - Paul Theroux
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.
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