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

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

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

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

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

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.