Quotes from Max Brooks

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

mines don't work that way. They don't blow up a human body, they take off a leg or ankle or the family jewels. That's what they're designed for, not to kill people, but to wound 'em so the army will spend valuable resources keeping them alive, and then send 'em home in a wheelchair so Ma and Pa Civilian can be reminded every time they see 'em that maybe supporting this war isn't such a good idea.

if you can fight,fight,help each other, be prepared for anything.

A lot less energy to convert animal into animal than vegetable into animal. And the brain boost we got from that bonanza. Tools, language, cooperation. You can see the incentive for all the advances that make us human. More meat. Bigger brains. Bigger brains. More meat. I wonder what it looked like, when we first tasted fresh blood. What did we think? What did we feel? That moment when everything changed. From scavenger to predator. Hunted to hunter.

Those poor bastards didn't want a rural life. They expected an urban life in a rural setting. They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it.

His last words: On ne passé pas!

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

Your childhood is spent being nurtured, protected, loved unconditionally while your adulthood is spent searching in vain for substitutes. Mate, government, God…

Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings.

La primera víctima del conflicto deben ser nuestros propios sentimientos," fue la última frase de su propuesta, "porque su supervivencia será la causa de nuestra destrucción.

Fear and anxiety. I've lived with the latter all my life. Now it's gone.

I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…

Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not require food,ammunition, or medical attention. It will not succumb to panic, desertion, or out-and-out mutiny. Like the virus that gave it life, this undead force will continue to grow, spreading across the body of this planet until there is nothing left to devour. Where would you go? What would you do?

North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.

the other?" I tried using the new whatchamacallit

Maybe some instinct told them it was time to swap evolution for devolution, reach back to who they were to take back what was theirs.

exist in this h… I couldn't finish the word, even in my own head. It was a rude word, especially among those of my people who believed a place like this existed as punishment after death.

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time. What is it that Mister Churchill used to say? "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

allow future generations to study the events of that apocalyptic decade without

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it.

Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it's unsustainable.

If there's anything worse than visualizing your own death, it's knowing that you caused it.

Couldn't get back up because his parents never let him get knocked down?

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.