"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."
— Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide)

"Use your head; cut off theirs."
— Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide)

"Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted."
— Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide)

"The dead walk among us."
— Max Brooks

"Organize before they rise!"
— Max Brooks

"During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns
such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the
emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of
zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This
obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an
executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks."
— Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide)

"The monkey didn't help matters any. He was sitting on top of the microbus, just watching the undead plunge to their end. His face appeared so serene, so intelligent, as if he truly understood the situation. I almost wanted him to turn to me and say, 'This is the turning point of the war! We've finally stopped them! We're finally safe!' But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face."
— Max Brooks

"Los monstruos que salían de sus tumbas no son nada comparados con los que llevamos dentro del corazón."
— Max Brooks

"El miedo, el miedo es la mercancía más valiosa del universo. Encended la televisión ¿Qué veis? ¿Gente vendiendo productos? NO. Gente vendiendo el miedo que tenéis de vivir sin sus productos.

El miedo vende"
— Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)

"No sé si los grandes hombres son productos de tiempos difíciles, pero sé que pueden ser sus víctimas."
— Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)

"No tienes que ser el puto Sun Tzu para saber que la verdadera batalla no consiste en matar, ni siquiera en herir al otro, sino en asustarlos lo suficiente para que lo deje."
— Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)

"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."
— Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)