Paul Theroux Quotes

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Being on the road is kind of lonely.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.