Mary Roach
Biography
Quotes
- As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.
- 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.
- Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
