More From Paul Theroux
- "Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation."
- "Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places."
- "The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity."
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- "If you travel to the States… they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say ‘elevator’, we say ‘lift’; they say ‘drapes’, we say ‘curtains’; they say ‘president’, we say ‘seriously deranged git.’"― Alexei Sayle
- "For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there’s no post in Denmark that a girl can’t aspire to."― Helle Thorning-Schmidt
- "Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond."― Hypatia