Quotes About Survival

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

When I went to Kabul - weeks after I finished 'The Kite Runner' - I met a lot of people from all walks of life: men, women, children, people from ministries, hotel doormen, shopkeepers. And I learned from them what daily life was like when the rockets were flying overhead.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.

At the end of the day, I still have bills to pay and taxes to pay.

I was bitten by a viper; there were two marks on my hand.

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.

The single 'Tha Block Is Hot' was a song that was true to life.

If we don't blow ourselves up, this is going to be a really wonderful world.

The people around me is the only reason why I survive: Bob Cook and DeWayne Zinkin.

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

When those four bombs fell, I was in the middle and I should have died.

I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.