Quotes About Theroux

Mother Land provides evidence that growth in self-understanding can be achieved at a late stage of life -- Theroux is in his seventies -- evidence that the story is not over yet and that new insight and change can take place until the end.

The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.

Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.

I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.

It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed.

if I promised to put my notebook on the floor and my pen in my pocket. And he suggested that I sit back and not gape out the window.

But that did not strike me as immoderate. It was a society that was pledged to austerity that was probably the most prone to going on binges. So, philosophically, the name didn't fit. But

The insecurity in Juárez drifted through the air like the memory of a shattering dream.

The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.

the gringos of McAllen stayed at home

which proved yet again, as I had seen in many lands, that the Bible was often the happy hunting ground of an unbalanced mind.

Greene was insecure, needy, insatiable, interested in variation, and always willing to have a go.

an intruder wearing a Mexican alibi.

Finally, this being America," Bryson says at another point, "there is the constant possibility of murder." The bears leave him alone, he is not murdered, and apart from sore feet, he is hardly inconvenienced in what is, for all its mock ordeals, a likable book.

The absence of verifiable news provokes rumors

If you didn't want drugs in your country, we wouldn't have cartels in ours.

Truth is not a saga of alarming episodes; it is a detail, usually a small one, that gives a fiction life.

but rather a solemn sense that since only Africans could define their problems, only Africans could fix them.

He played on the distrust of the Clintons and subtly disparaged the Republican Party.

A further detail: this gringo writer was self-supporting and had no connection to the American embassy or any foreign organization.