I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
Bill BrysonTaxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really itโs a battleground.
Bill BrysonI was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.
Bill BrysonAustralians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.
Bill Bryson