Paul Theroux Quotes

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.

I'm bored, normally, when I travel.

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, 'hang on a minute, I'm obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.'

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

I'm bad at going on vacation.

For players you don't hear about in the news, they enjoy the hell out of the offseason. They can travel and see things they never thought they'd see, or go back home to relax and see their kids and family that they haven't had a chance to hang out with in a few months.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

I do have moments when I like to relax, but I'm always moving, and that has always been the case since I was a boy.

Usually, I head for another performance or back to Mumbai right after my performance. But whenever I come to Delhi, I make it a point to stay back in the city for at least a day so that I can unwind.

On my real vacations, I meet up with friends and we go for walks on the beach. We stroll through old cities, swim in the sea, and take afternoon naps. We shop, lunch, and, yeah, drink.

I don't really have days where I can sit and do nothing!

Wherever I travel, I always head for a drink at the hotel bar as soon as I arrive. Not only is it a great way to relax, but it's a fantastic way to feel the pulse of a city.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.