“The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. A...” — Paul Theroux Quote

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

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

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

As a member of the audience, when you see someone from your country working in an international project, your curiosity about that film increases manifold.