I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me. Max Brooks More Quotes by Max Brooks More Quotes From 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 deceit fire lying 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 boulders agonizing choices 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 childhood water two 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 world-war-z tvs people The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts Max Brooks monsters rose heart Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. Max Brooks zombie protection school My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor. Max Brooks wit-and-humor coping-mechanisms use You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler Max Brooks boulders mountain choices That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary. Max Brooks feet doors thinking 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 stupidity believe people Use your head; cut off theirs. Max Brooks halloween zombie cutting 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 procrastination rain believe There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts. Max Brooks giving facts way We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore. Max Brooks what-if cutting people [...]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 real hurt fear 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 giants epic war To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be. Max Brooks matter answers might 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 bored soul thinking 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 perception war america But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. Max Brooks walking-dead humans matter
