Bill Bryson Good Quotations

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.

The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good... America really deserves more credit.