All good research- whether for science or for a book- is a form of obsession.
--Mary Roach
Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
--Mary Roach
Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.
--Mary Roach
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
--Mary Roach
Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
--Mary Roach
The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)
--Mary Roach
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.
--Mary Roach
Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
--Mary Roach
Worry lives a long way from rational thought.
--Mary Roach
Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.
--Mary Roach
You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.
--Mary Roach
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