D. T. Max Quotes

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

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

The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

Organize before they rise!

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.

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

I wanted to be a painter.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

Two or three girls go to a club and they've worked out that one player is worth 50,000 (128,000), another's worth 30,000 (77,000). That's the reality.

Talk to the press and we'll bury you.

in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.

taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.