Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

Beulah 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.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.