“People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald’s hash brown if it’s all they got.” – pg. 18
“When you’re beginning to suspect you might be leaving a place, you become hypersensitive to it, as if your mind is subconsciously stacking itself with smells, sounds, sights, and tactile sensations of a place you’ll no longer see every day.” – pg. 86
“Anything we create has to involve simplifying, leaving, or destroying the world we’re living in.
Zombies simplify. Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure in tact. The world, appearance-wise, survives. Zombies tend to be the most nihilistic of the three. Zombies can’t believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.
Spaceships leave. Spaceships figure it’s easier to build a world and know its history or, better yet, choose the limited customs and rituals that fit the story. Spaceships are the ones most likely to get married and have kids.
Wastelands destroy. They’re confused but fascinated by the world. Post-nuke, post-meteor strike, or simply a million years into the future – that’s the perfect environment for the Wasteland’s imagination to gallop through. Weirdly, Wastelands are the most hopeful and sentimental of the bunch. Because even though they’ve destroyed the world as they know it, they conceive of stories in which a core of humanity survives and endures.” – pg. 97-101
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