There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.