Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
Bill BrysonThe first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
Bill BrysonI love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.
Bill BrysonWhen I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
Bill Bryson