Quotes About Survival

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

If I was stuck on a deserted island, I would have guacamole.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.