Paul Theroux said this quote

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

~ Paul Theroux

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

~ Paul Theroux

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

~ Paul Theroux

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

~ Paul Theroux