When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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 BrysonBeulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.
Bill Bryson