Author: Bill Bryson

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.

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The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience

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Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.

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For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

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

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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

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Boston's freeway system was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

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He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

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In New England there are three times of year… either winter has just been, or winter is coming, or it’s winter.

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Let’s be frank, the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.

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If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

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