Paul Theroux Quotes

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

I want to be in places I've never been before.

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.

I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

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

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.