To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.

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