Paul Theroux

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.