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.
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Americans worship technology. It’s an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
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’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.
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.
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
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.
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.
But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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.’
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.
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse – no water, food, medical care, the government imploding – while letting us sleep at night.