Paul Theroux, Ghost Train To The Eastern Star Quotes
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.
Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
The topography of literature, the fact in fiction, is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.