Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

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

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

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.