Travel and Fiction

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
― Paul Theroux

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
― Paul Theroux

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
― Paul Theroux

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.”
― Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

“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.”
― Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”
― Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town