Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

"I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him."

Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

"Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead."

Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

"The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water."

Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America