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Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration. — Mary Roach

This is a book about notable achievements made while dead. — Mary Roach

US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army. — Mary Roach

To me, death is dark, pain, grief. — Mary Roach

There are naturally large individual differences in the chemical makeup of people's saliva. — Mary Roach

An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can't be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases. — Mary Roach

Day by day, I'm kind of a bore. — Mary Roach

If you don't have a pair of cadaver shoes, you're not doing enough research. — Mary Roach

I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper. — Mary Roach

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach

freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer. — Mary Roach

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm. — Mary Roach

People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts. — Mary Roach

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff. — Mary Roach

He has a minor in explosives and the slightly bitter, misanthropic personality of someone who shouldn't. — Mary Roach

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge. — Mary Roach

No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size. — Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes. — Mary Roach

The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description. — Mary Roach

We were unable to obtain any lesbians, Pomeroy says, as though perhaps they hadn't been in season, or his paperwork wasn't in order.) — Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns. — Mary Roach

I'm a science goober. — Mary Roach

Why don't suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums? — Mary Roach

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between. — Mary Roach

(As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.) — Mary Roach

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now. — Mary Roach

It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point — Mary Roach

The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet". — Mary Roach

And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For — Mary Roach

Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God. — Mary Roach

Flatulence peaks twice a day ... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner. — Mary Roach

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos. — Mary Roach

Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal — Mary Roach

Compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams ... — Mary Roach

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman. — Mary Roach

Ability to Function Despite Imminent Catastrophe. — Mary Roach

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science. — Mary Roach

It tastes like water spiked with strange. — Mary Roach

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger. — Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane. — Mary Roach

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute." Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, "What a sight to behold! — Mary Roach

I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful? — Mary Roach

Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter. — Mary Roach

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer. — Mary Roach

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain. — Mary Roach

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch. — Mary Roach

The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months."* — Mary Roach

There is one thing dead people excel at. They're — Mary Roach

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading. — Mary Roach

How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies? — Mary Roach

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket. — Mary Roach

What's different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring. — Mary Roach

Worry lives a long way from rational thought.
Self — Mary Roach

Many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn't intend to tell you about it. — Mary Roach

The human liver is a boss-looking organ. — Mary Roach

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. — Mary Roach

Death doesn't have to be boring. — Mary Roach

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people. — Mary Roach

Death. It doesn't have to be boring. — Mary Roach

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. — Mary Roach

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. — Mary Roach

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive. — Mary Roach

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong. — Mary Roach

You don't need proof. You just need an inclination — Mary Roach

How about suicide rate. And what a shame to lose them after they've made it back. We keep them alive, but we don't teach them how to live. — Mary Roach

I am of the opinion that the vulva of Your Most Sacred Majesty should be titillated for some length of time before intercourse. — Mary Roach

Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true. — 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

If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines. — Mary Roach

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me. — Mary Roach

Hydromedusa tectifera are, like post-war Nazis, native to Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. — Mary Roach

Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing. — Mary Roach

(The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey, — Mary Roach

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see. — Mary Roach

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom. — Mary Roach

People are vomiting unrealistically in movies, and something must be done about it. — Mary Roach

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect. — Mary Roach

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars. — Mary Roach

Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation. — Mary Roach

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession. — Mary Roach

No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality. — Mary Roach

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls. — Mary Roach

The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang. — Mary Roach

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself. — Mary Roach

The act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut. — Mary Roach

People are messy, unpredictable things. — Mary Roach

Is it possible to bolster one's hip bones by doing some type of controlled fall? Here — Mary Roach

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. — Mary Roach

No man got an erection from looking at "brown string sandals. — Mary Roach