Figures In A Landscape Quotes

“The writing profession that I have always known is changing, old media is ossified, and what I know of new media is that it is casual, opinionated, improvisational, largely unedited, full of whoppers, often plagiarized, and poorly paid.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“Why is it . . . that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“There are three things I never saw her do: tell a lie, be unkind, or arrive on time.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“I had felt myself not merely incapable of love . . . but even of guilt.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“The travel, the sex, the writing, the romances, were—so Norman Sherry suggests—all attempts by Greene to relieve his depression. He was an authentic melancholic.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“Obsessive and easily bored, he was incapable of being sexually faithful to any woman. He reveled in being a wanderer, an eavesdropper, a stranger”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“Greene was insecure, needy, insatiable, interested in variation, and always willing to have a go.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“as thrilling as a child’s game: the hiding, the secrets, the lies, the play-acting, the giggling satisfaction, the guilt, even the furtive sex itself.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“. Like many other sexually obsessed men he tended to be noncommittal, evasive, given to unexplained vanishings and sentimental utterances, but forever feverishly on the prowl.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“someone who lived everywhere and nowhere, a man whom few people ever knew.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“Adventure is the unexpected experience of discovery, of course; but it is also a kind of death, an end of innocence.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“I travel to find obstacles, to discover my limits, to ease the passage of time,”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles

“The whole point of adventure is that it is unplanned; a leap in the dark, verging on the unfortunate, offering glimpses of danger; and what separates adventure from disaster is that you live to tell the tale.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places

“What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere if you’re not in a hurry.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles