#go

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. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#crash #define #flight #food #get

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#good manners #indistinguishable #japanese #made #manners

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#case #developing #direction #few #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. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#coping #find #good #hotels #i

I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work. ↗

— David Thewlis

#few #here #i #liked #met

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries. ↗

— David Thewlis

#because #certainly #child #countries #different

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. ↗

— David Thewlis

#am #because #die #down #going

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#certainly #easy #everything #going #humor