261 Quotes by Max Brooks

Great risks come with great rewards.

If there’s anything worse than visualizing your own death, it’s knowing that you caused it.

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.

When Travis D’Ambrosia became chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he not only invented the resource-to-kill ratio, but developed a comprehensive strategy to employ it. I always listened to him when he told me a certain weapons system was vital.

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.

Knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

And Professor Tongun, from Sudan, “Like a tree in the forest, America doesn’t hear foreign suffering.

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.

I don’t know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.