America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
Bill BrysonIt is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
Bill BrysonAs a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
Bill BrysonI really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.
Bill Bryson