Paul Theroux Mind Quotations

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind

Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. It is almost entirely an inner experience.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.