Quotes by Bill Bryson

• I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
• Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
• 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.
• Adventure is just bad planning, but it sure makes for great stories!