Bill Bryson

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

“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”

“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.”

“I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.”

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

“I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.”