Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

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

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

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

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.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.