How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

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.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

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

Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

Blood is one thing, but that’s not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They’re the ones who’ll keep you standing.