Mary Roach Quotes

Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).

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

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...

cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs.....

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

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff, ' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

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.