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“I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin. 'It's melting -- like cotton candy.'
'Sure. That's the sugar in the DNA,' Smith said.
'Would it taste sweet?'
'No. DNA is an acid, and it's got salts in it. Actually, I've never tasted it.'
Later, I got some dried calf DNA. I placed a bit of the fluff on my tongue. It melted into a gluey ooze that stuck to the roof of my mouth in a blob. The blob felt slippery on my tongue, and the taste of pure DNA appeared. It had a soft taste, unsweet, rather bland, with a touch of acid and a hint of salt. Perhaps like the earth's primordial sea. It faded away.

Page 67, in Richard Preston's biographical essay on Craig Venter, "The Genome Warrior" (originally published in The New Yorker in 2000).”
― Timothy Ferris, The Best American Science Writing 2001

“Embrace the bizarre.”
― Steven Magee

“It's damn freaky that's what it is.”
― Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult

“Let's all take a moment and PRAISE THE LORD spiders don't fly.”
― Lily Fordu

“I fell like a celibate hustler
A stained & sullied spirit...
Halfway between freaky and holy”
― Neil Mach, The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn

“The wind blows a milkweed puff and two seeds do not fly.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“Crapofanity, are you totally nuts?”
― Neil Mach, Moondog and the Dark Arches

“I tell you all this because the next story you'll read here is about fucking. No, not lovemaking, or "being with", or anything more meaningful sexually than fucking.”
― Harlan Ellison, [ { SHATTERDAY [ SHATTERDAY ] BY ELLISON, HARLAN ( AUTHOR )MAR-01-2001 PAPERBACK } ] by Ellison, Harlan (AUTHOR) Aug-06-2009 [ Paperback ]