261 Quotes by Max Brooks

Different places, different ages, completely different cultures, and yet they came up with similar weapons and tactics. Is there something about how we’re wired, something universally human?

The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

Need. That’s what makes a village. That’s what we are now, and what holds us together is need. I won’t help you if you don’t help me. That is the social contract.” I couldn’t really process what she was saying.

Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

They realized that the best way to mask what they were doing was to hide it in plain sight. Instead of lying about the sweeps themselves, they just lied about what they were sweeping for.

Its gold boots are, in fact, glowing.” “Glowing with what?” “Can’t say. Some sort of magic, I guess.

All positivity all the time. Learn to fly, even if it’s in the Hindenburg.

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.

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.