Max Brooks Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The dead walk among us.

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

Use your head; cut off theirs.

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.

What are you, your fucking mother?" ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z

I'm not going to say the war was a good thing. I'm not that much of a sick fuck, but you've got to admit that it did bring people together.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

When this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm

Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?

Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.

Personally, I could have cared less.

And, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left "alive." We

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment.

Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.