James Pratt Quotes

“As McMasters raised the shotgun, the man removed his glasses. There were fields of stars where his eyes should have been. But they weren’t reflections of the night sky. These stars were a glimpse of a dim and distant future where the very laws of physics had been reduced to relics of a forgotten age. Feeble as dying embers, they were the palsied mourners at time’s wake.McMasters could hear the ultimate silence and feel the biting cold of the one true void. The promise of the eternal nothing beckoned to him. There was a sort of peace in the death it represented, not the death of mind and body but of shape and form. It was the final revelation, the casting off of life’s illusion in favor of the void’s embrace. from "Riders of the Necronomicon”

“Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.”

“I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.”

“The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you're putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.”

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”

“Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.”

“The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the page are merely the means to that end, a think-by-numbers set, a bottled daydream. The book, therefore, is only finished when someone reads it. - Sidelines”

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

“A man of fifty is responsible for his face.”

“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....”