And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."

I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.

...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.

A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.

Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes