“An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really ...” — Bill Bryson Quote

“An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.”

“A veces el mundo no está preparado para una buena idea.”

“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.”

“I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.”

“Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.”

“To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.”

“Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.”

“I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.”

“Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.”

“I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.”

“I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.”

“People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.”