"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything."
— Bill Bryson

"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?'"
— Bill Bryson (The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America)

"We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls."
— Bill Bryson