Derek Pratt

“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.
[closing narration: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", Twilight Zone episode aired March 4, 1960”
― Rod Serling

“We weren’t heroes. We were killers. That’s the reason we survived so long… Because this world belongs to monsters...It shouldn’t.”
― Ed Brubaker, Pulp

“All you will get from me is death.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers