“ Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own l… J. Maarten Troost
“ The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that. J. Maarten Troost
“ Don't get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yard… J. Maarten Troost
“ Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. J. Maarten Troost
“ The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience a visceral form of bipolar disorder. There is the ecstatic high, when you find yourself swep… J. Maarten Troost
“ I too was very busy. Thinking. I had decided to write a novel. It would be a big book, Tolstoyan in scale, Joycean in its ambition, Shakespearean in its lyricism. Twenty years hence, the book would be… J. Maarten Troost
“ The thunder and bombast of what passes for news programming today--Motto: All terror, all the time J. Maarten Troost
“ Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. J. Maarten Troost
“ Nevertheless, while I may not have completely understood what Holy Communion was all about, Catholicism did allow me to see the nuances in cannibalism. Eating the flesh of another human being, I under… J. Maarten Troost
“ It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot. J. Maarten Troost
“ I treated the wound with antibiotic cream and let it close before doing any serious snorkeling—and incidentally, I do very much like the phrase serious snorkeling. If I could somehow figure out a way… J. Maarten Troost
“ Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them. J. Maarten Troost
“ Look for a wave shaped like an A. . Hmm. I saw and and . I saw the alphabet and the alphabet. I saw . I saw no . Finally I gave up, and chose the next wave that would have me, which turned out to… J. Maarten Troost
“ It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who… J. Maarten Troost
“ In Kiribati, the unimane and unaine (old women) are considered the guardians of the culture, a state of affairs that sets it apart from the United States, where the final arbiter for all things cultur… J. Maarten Troost
“ Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks because it makes other people less boring. J. Maarten Troost
“ I'm off to an island nation where formal wear consists of a leaf tired around a penis. J. Maarten Troost
