Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Paul TherouxIn a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.
Paul TherouxAirplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
Paul Theroux