Quotes from Max Brooks

was like…a dam breaking; the taboo was shattered, and the truth just started flooding out. It was…liberating.

But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who's going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that's out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted "The Dead Are Walking," the more most real Americans tuned them out.

And then they came, right out of the smoke like a freakin' little kid's nightmare! Some were steaming, some were even still burning…some were walking, some crawling, some just dragging themselves along on their torn bellies…maybe one in twenty was still able to move, which left…shit…a couple thousand? And behind them, mixing with their ranks and pushing steadily toward us, the remaining million that the air strike hadn't even touched!

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

We split the atom, we reached the moon, we've filled every household and business with more gadgets and gizmos than early sci-fi writers could have ever dreamed of.

real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. Break

Knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

J'ignore si les grandes époques font les grands hommes, mais je sais qu'elles les tuent.

We can't just mourn the deaths, we also have to celebrate the lives. We need Anne Frank's diary, but we also need her smile on the cover.

For starters, you must understand the inherent difference between a castle and a palace. A

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares.

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

And with the final question, "Why didn't they fight back?" came the inevitable dismissal. "Because it would not have made a difference.

You may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here?

Are you going to deny that King's leverage was based on the fear of Malcolm X?" Sensing an opening, I tried to break the siege. "An open hand works when the alternative is a fist.

Conventional executions might have reinforced discipline, might have restored order from the top down, but by making us all accomplices, they held us together not just by fear, but by guilt as well.

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalistic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.

and moaned what I think is the word "sploosh" (a reference to his favorite show, Archer).

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for c

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.

backasswards!

You would have entire suburban neighborhoods of upper-middle-class professionals, none of whom had possessed even the basic know-how to replace a cracked window.

what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product