Bill Bryson Quotes

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.
Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
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