261 Quotes by 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.

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.

You can tell everything about a person by what happens when he opens his mouth.

Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has.

There’s a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

When you think about the CIA, you probably imagine two of our most popular and enduring myths. The first is that our mission is to search the globe for any conceivable threat to the United States, and the second is that we have the power to perform the first. This myth is the by-product of an organization, which, by its very nature, must exist and operate in secrecy. Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree. No matter how unlikely or far-fetched a possibility might be, one must always dig deeper.

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.

It is because of this enemy, the enemy of time, that I have forsaken the luxury of hindsight and.