You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

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

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.

The dead walk among us.

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.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.