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.

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.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

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

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...