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.

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

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

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.