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.

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

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

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.