Theroux, Paul Filmography

• Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Chinese Box
  1997, role: writer
• Half Moon Street
  1986, role: writer
• Christmas Snow
  1986, role: writer
• The Mosquito Coast
  1986, role: writer
• Saint Jack
  1979, role: writer
• Saint Jack
  1979, role: writer

Famous quotes by Paul Theroux:

"It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians"

"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better"

"The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month"

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful."

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

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"

"The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume"

"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

"When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost."

"I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read."

"It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources."

"The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming."

"The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'"

"Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in."

"A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form."

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation."

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