Quotes from Max Brooks

Whenever someone said "Good luck" or "Godspeed," I only heard "Better you than me.

You can blame the politicians, the businessmen, the generals, the machine... But really, if you're looking to blame someone: blame me. I'm the American System. I'm the machine. That's the price of living in a democracy: we all gotta take the rap.

news from the Tri Nations was enough to make any South African feel ten feet tall. The Springboks were trouncing the All Blacks…again!

People are the problem. Nature is your friend.

Facts are supposed to banish monsters… She sighs. …not invite them in.

A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

Then I heard him shout "They're running! Holy fuckin' shit, they're fast!" Fast zombies, that turned my gut. If they could run, they could climb, if they could climb, maybe they could think, and if they could think…now I was scared.

Nice to be able to say, "Hey, don't look at me, it's not my fault." Well, it is. It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

If you had a loved one, a family member, a child, who was infected, and you thought there was a shred of hope in some other country, wouldn't you do everything in your power to get there? Wouldn't you want to believe there was hope?

What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge.

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

America is a very all-or-nothing society. We like the big win, the touchdown, the knockout in the first round. We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't only uncontested, it was positively devastating.

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. That was my mantra. "Fear sells.

These trees are happy. Yes, I said it. Why wouldn't they be, in this rich, soft, rain-washed soil.

very terrifying strip of double netherrack that ran from our speck to the edge of the main plain.

They also wouldn't let me climb the waist-thick trunk up to the square bunches of small

Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.

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

Seriously, like Steve Jobs playing the orchestra,*8 my orchestra is this land. When you're here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That's been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we've created so much distance from it.

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.

The majority of them simply melted into the host country's underbelly. The low-income areas? If that's what you want to call them. What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge. How else could so many outbreaks have started in so many First World ghettos?

Every rich man's house has a servant's entrance.

the Jaguar's pilot was ordered to execute "Shiva's Wrath." "Do you know what that means?" Raj-Singh