"Travel works best when you’re forced to come to terms with the place you’re in." ― Paul Theroux Topic(s): Travel More From Paul Theroux "Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind." "When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I’ve gone on. I certainly don’t feel I need his approval, although maybe that’s because I’m confident that I’ve got it." "Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation." More In Travel "I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags."― Guy Clark "And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that’s far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before."― Marc Andreessen "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."― Maya Angelou