Toxins love to get you while youre young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when its mature and comparatively fixed. – Jeffrey Kluger
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats. – Jeffrey Kluger
Theres a sort of sibling moratorium when youre establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now youre building a new extended family. – Jeffrey Kluger
No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist? – Jeffrey Kluger