Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
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Paul Theroux
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You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Par Paul Theroux

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

Par Paul Theroux

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Par Paul Theroux

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

Par Paul Theroux

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Par Paul Theroux

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Par Paul Theroux

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Par Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Par Paul Theroux