74 quotes found
Author · American · 1959
American author (born 1959)
“People are messy, unpredictable things.”
“It tastes like water spiked with strange.”
“The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet".”
“Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.”
“You don't need proof. You just need an inclination”
“There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...”
“The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.”
“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then...”
“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 joke...”
“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.”
“It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and thats thatthe million-year nap? Or will some part of my...”
“There is her heart. I've never seen one beating.I had no idea they moved so much. You put your hand on your heart and you picture something pulsing slightly but basically still, like a hand on a de...”
“Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver.”
“US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.”
“Homo sapiens is one of the few species on earth that care if theyre seen having sex. The impala is unconcerned. The dingo roundly flaunts it. A masturbating chimpanzee will stare straight at you. T...”
“Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called gender empathy. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well wh...”
“Viagra isn't the only drug being prescribed off-label for women with arousal problems. Los Angeles urologist Jennifer Berman told me some doctors are prescribing low doses of Ritalin. Drugs like Ri...”
“Please beware," came his reply, "There are a lot of people who believe that just because we don't have an explanation for something, it's quantum mechanics.”
“Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?" "Butcher Boys." Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. "Hello, I'm from the university" - the cat...”
“The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the...”
“In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the ...”
