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.
Paul TherouxPeople talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Paul TherouxIf people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.
Paul TherouxWhen I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
Paul Theroux