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

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• Bill Bryson:

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

• Bill Bryson:

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

• Bill Bryson:

  I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or

• Bill Bryson:

  There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a wait

• Bill Bryson:

  I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories,

• Bill Bryson:

  We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provide

• Bill Bryson:

  Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most

• Bill Bryson:

  A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them

• Bill Bryson:

  I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

• Bill Bryson:

  Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you t