Quotes from Max Brooks

its mottled gray flesh was all torn and pockmarked. It smelled like the beach, like rotten kelp and saltwater. Aiden

RYSSDAL: Suck on that, Elon Musk. TONY: No, no, I love Elon, he's a good guy, but he does have some catching up to do.

The fault lies not in the eyes, but in the mind, a lazy thought process spoiled by a lifetime of optic nerve dependency. Not so for those like me.

telling them that they're going to be okay. There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has.

But is it so wrong to want to be watched over? When you're feeling small and scared—which, let's be honest, is pretty much how I feel all the time—isn't it okay, just for a moment, to want someone, something bigger than you to have all the answers, to have everything under control?

I happened to be born into a group of people who live in constant fear of extinction. It's part of our identity, part of our mind-set, and it has taught us through horrific trial and error to always be on our guard.

Go into the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

What kind of misinformation were you combating? Where do you want me to begin? Medical? Scientific? Military? Spiritual? Psychological? The psychological aspect I found the most maddening. People wanted so badly to anthropomorphize the walking blight.

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

What else can go wrong," I grumbled, just as it began to rain.

Although Sharon was found in the ruins of Wichita, there is no way of knowing where her story originally occurred.]

knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.

It's comforting to see children again, I mean those who were born after the war, real children who know nothing but a world that includes the living dead. They know not to play near water, not to go out alone or after dark in the spring or summer. They don't know to be afraid, and that is the greatest gift, the only gift we can leave to them.

why wouldn't destruction of the brain be the only way to annihilate these creatures? Isn't it the only way to annihilate us as well?

Same room, different priorities.

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

According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —LEON C. MEGGINSON, professor of management and marketing at Louisiana State University, 1963

The burning beast suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke.

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

I know it sounds ridiculous, like something you'd hear from a mountaintop guru or a little green swamp alien who can lift a spaceship with his mind. But doesn't it kinda make sense?

It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.

Confidence, it's the fuel that drives the capitalist machine.