“Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's ...” — Mary Roach Quote

“Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.”

“Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to find and target researchers whose work they object to on religious grounds.”

“They say that women's sexual peaks are in their 30s or 40s, and I think that it happens because they're more comfortable. It's not some hormonal change that happens at that age. Of course, it would be nice to have more physiological insight on that.”

“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.”

“One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.”

“I first met Doddie in a hotel in Carlisle less than two weeks after my diagnosis and I can honestly say he changed my life. His positive outlook and attitude was central to how I decided I was going to take on my own challenge with MND.”

“What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.”

“Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?”

“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.”

“By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.”

“When it got to the diagnosis of my knee and when I realised how long I was going to be out, my thoughts spiralled out of control.”