Mary Roach Quotes

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

I would not open windows into men's souls.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

I just felt like, "Why would you discuss my body as if it's an object?" People will come up and say things like, "Are your breasts real?" I mean, people will come up and discuss my body as if I'm not human.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.