I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vagu... -Paul Theroux

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.

Paul Theroux Quotes to Explore

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 tra...

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time,...

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in....

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind....

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming....

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 travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel....

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to...

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of be...

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth....

Alone Quotes to Explore

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone....

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that w...

Victims always feel alone and helpless....

I don't even know how much money I've spent on all of this stuff... Just in plates and bars alone, it's literally a ridiculous amount of money I've sp...

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient....

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone....

I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy....

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but ...

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom i...

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone,...