“Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all o...” — Bill Bryson Quote

“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.”

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

“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.”

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

“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.”

“Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.”

“Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.”

“I went to a wedding and on the way home - I don't drink, I'll have a cocktail once in a while - but I hadn't been drinking at this and it was in the middle of the night. There was a car upside down and the car had just crashed and I was the first on the scene.”

“I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.”

“Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.”

“My stepfather was mean to me and caused many an argument between my mother and myself. Once he even bawled me out for using one of my cars.”