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It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time. -- Max Brooks
Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times. -- Max Brooks
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. -- Max Brooks
The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding. -- Max Brooks
Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed. -- Max Brooks
History has proven that a well-trained individual, with nothing but a rock, has a better chance of survival than a novice with the latest technological marvel. -- Max Brooks
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. -- Max Brooks
There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope. -- Max Brooks
This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris ... any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a "Scorched Space" policy. "If we can't have it, neither can anyone else. -- Max Brooks
When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no. -- Max Brooks
A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles. -- Max Brooks
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. -- Max Brooks
Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with the greatest return on your investment. -- Max Brooks
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget. -- Max Brooks
When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in. -- Max Brooks
Whatever bro, tell it to the whales -- Max Brooks
What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment. -- Max Brooks
Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival. -- Max Brooks
Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. -- Max Brooks
Knowledge is only part of the fight for survival. -- Max Brooks
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all. -- Max Brooks
Personally, I could have cared less. -- Max Brooks
It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured. -- Max Brooks
Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. -- Max Brooks
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist. -- Max Brooks
Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one. -- Max Brooks
[Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal -- Max Brooks
The highest distinction is service to others. -- Max Brooks
Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed. -- Max Brooks
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. -- Max Brooks
We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead. -- Max Brooks
I'm addicted to murder, and that's about the nicest way I can put it. You might say that's not technically true, that since they're already dead I'm not really killing. Horseshit; it's murder, and it's a rush like nothing else. Sure, -- Max Brooks
the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise. -- Max Brooks
[ ... ]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. -- Max Brooks
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say "perception" because America is a very all-or-nothing society ... We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating. -- Max Brooks
And that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude.
Arthur Sinclair -- Max Brooks
Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it. -- Max Brooks
It wasn't perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn't. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov. -- Max Brooks
Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning. -- Max Brooks
The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch. -- Max Brooks
I can't tell you if this is the right path; the future is too mountainous to see to far ahead ... Only 'the gods' know what awaits us at its end. -- Max Brooks
Because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were. -- Max Brooks
Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies. -- Max Brooks
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. -- Max Brooks
Only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe. -- Max Brooks
Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit. -- Max Brooks
Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning. -- Max Brooks
With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion? -- Max Brooks
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. -- Max Brooks
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used. -- Max Brooks
The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality -- Max Brooks
I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. -- Max Brooks
We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z -- Max Brooks
The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself. -- Max Brooks
Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed. -- Max Brooks
And, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history. -- Max Brooks
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down. -- Max Brooks
Our country only exists because people believed in it, and if it wasn't strong enough to protect us from this crisis, then what future could it ever hope to have? -- Max Brooks
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts. -- Max Brooks
Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories. -- Max Brooks
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls. -- Max Brooks
[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity. -- Max Brooks
To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be. -- Max Brooks
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.' -- Max Brooks
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp. -- Max Brooks
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Max Brooks
That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one. -- Max Brooks
If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining -- Max Brooks
What are you, your fucking mother?" ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z -- Max Brooks
The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts -- Max Brooks
In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left "alive." We -- Max Brooks
From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine. -- Max Brooks
You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'. -- Max Brooks
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. -- Max Brooks
I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared. -- Max Brooks
PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, TENNESSEE -- Max Brooks
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war. -- Max Brooks
You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least won't leak on the people who are gonna vote for you. -- Max Brooks
But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? -- Max Brooks
After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats. -- Max Brooks
Use your head; cut off theirs. -- Max Brooks
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump. -- Max Brooks
My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. -- Max Brooks
When this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm -- Max Brooks
Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame. -- Max Brooks
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story. -- Max Brooks
What are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product -- Max Brooks
But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. -- Max Brooks
Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body. -- Max Brooks
Show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay. -- Max Brooks
I'm not going to say the war was a good thing. I'm not that much of a sick fuck, but you've got to admit that it did bring people together. -- Max Brooks
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero. -- Max Brooks
The dead walk among us. -- Max Brooks
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy. -- Max Brooks
What about the FDA? Please, are you serious? Back then the FDA was one of the most underfunded, mismanaged organizations in the country. I think they were still high-fiving over getting Red No. 218 out of M&Ms. -- Max Brooks
Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore. -- Max Brooks
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.' -- Max Brooks
Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you. -- Max Brooks
Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves. -- Max Brooks
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.' -- Max Brooks
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from. -- Max Brooks
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. -- Max Brooks
I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in. -- Max Brooks
Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe ... Turn on the TV ... What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products. -- Max Brooks
How do you effectively separate the infected from the others? How -- Max Brooks
Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War. -- Max Brooks
Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity. -- Max Brooks
The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority. -- Max Brooks
To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks -- Max Brooks
Organize before they rise! -- Max Brooks
If you can fight,fight,help each other, be prepared for anything. -- Max Brooks
Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted. -- Max Brooks
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had. -- Max Brooks
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. That's not cynicism, that's maturity. -- Max Brooks
You can tell everything about a person by what happens when he opens his mouth. -- Max Brooks
They didn't break me. I broke myself. -- Max Brooks
Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings. -- Max Brooks
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. -- Max Brooks
If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it. -- Max Brooks
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. -- Max Brooks
