Quotes from Jack L. Chalker

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

Decadence is wonderful.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

I write novels and other things.

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.

The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.

Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply. "Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember--he's only a machine, just an imperfect mirror of ourselves. We made him what he is--the disease, the cancer." There was nothing else to say, because that left only cursing ourselves, and we were already cursed.

Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,

All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.

Patience is a virtue best left to the dead, who can afford it,

the best con men were the ones you'd embrace and then buy dinner and toast their good health even when they were stealing you blind.

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,