“Irwins are never more alive than when they’re five minutes away from getting slaughtered.”

“People who can’t hack it as Irwins because they’re too violent go into the air travel industry.”

“Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.”

“One thing I did learn from those classes is that the world is not, in any way, what people expected thirty years ago. The zombies are here, and they’re not going away, but they’re not the story. They were, for one hot, horrible summer at the beginning of the century, but now they’re just another piece of the way things work. They did their part: They changed everything.”

“The day was getting more interesting by the minute. I just had to hope it was the sort of interesting we'd live to talk about later.”

“There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.”

“...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.”