I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Rawson points out that although snakes can’t taste, they have a primitive sense of smell. They’ll extend their tongue to gather volatile molecules and… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“As the number of Inuit who hunt has dwindled, so has the consumption of organs (and other anatomy not available for purchase at the… — Mary Roach Copy Share
For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“If you look at survivable crashes, it’s rare that even half the emergency exits open,” says Shanahan. “Plus, there’s a lot of panic and… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Viagra isn't the only drug being prescribed off-label for women with arousal problems. Los Angeles urologist Jennifer Berman told me some doctors are prescribing… — Mary Roach Copy Share
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as… — Mary Roach Copy Share
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because:… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“panel applicants at the initial screening were asked not only to describe the cat foods but also to rate them according to how much… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“* Kissing is a less aggressive form of bacterial transplant. Studies of three different gingivitis-causing bacteria have documented migration from spouse to spouse. Periodontically… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Nirlungayuk reached a similar conclusion. I tracked him down, seventeen years later, and asked him what the outcome of his country-foods campaign had been.… — Mary Roach Copy Share
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Olive trees grow in the same climate and soil conditions as grapes. The olive oil people have been up in Napa Valley all along,… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“A patient on the way to surgery travels at twice the speed of a patient on the way to the morgue. Gurneys that ferry… — Mary Roach Copy Share
