You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
Charlize Theron
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers'... →
Paul Theroux
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after... →
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a... →
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice... →
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of... →
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility.... →
The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They... →
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... →