When a man takes an oath. . . he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 911, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D. C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that
The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.