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

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

“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.”

“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.”

“His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.”

“...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.”