Bill bryson

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an...

Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

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

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you...

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

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

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.