Top 90 Quotes by Bill Bryson

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

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

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

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

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.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.