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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

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To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

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I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.

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I'm a science goober.

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Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

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

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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.

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Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

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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.

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Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 20th, 1959

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