Jack L. Chalker > Quotes

“Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The River of Dancing Gods

“...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Ninety Trillion Fausts

“You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.”
― Jack L. Chalker

“The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

“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.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Web of the Chozen

“Patience is a virtue best left to the dead, who can afford it,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Exiles at the Well of Souls

“All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

“Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Return of Nathan Brazil

“If you don’t lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Sea is Full of Stars

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Return of Nathan Brazil

“There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Exiles at the Well of Souls

“truth of oratory—it is not what you say but how you say it that counts for everything. Consider just how little a politician actually says, as compared to what his or her listeners believe about that politician.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“It is only life that has meaning, not death,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“An intelligent man [doesn’t] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently."

- Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods”
― Jack Chalker

“All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

“It’s sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don’t live to see what people do to their visions.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Return of Nathan Brazil

“I'm a nut, I know I'm a nut, I enjoy being a nut so I'll stay a nut.”
― Jack L. Chalker

“When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Quest for the Well of Souls

“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.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Sea is Full of Stars

“Magic is doing something the other guy can’t do. We haven’t learned how to do it yet, so it’s magic. When we learn how and understand it, it’s science.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Return of Nathan Brazil

“Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Quest for the Well of Souls

“Power without the wisdom to use it properly was a very good definition of evil,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Ghost of the Well of Souls

“What you don’t have to think about can’t really get to you.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Exiles at the Well of Souls

“Nothing done in love that harms no one can be perverse.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Lords of the Middle Dark

“wrongly, in him.” Macore nodded sympathetically. “Yeah, it’s always that way. You get some sincere people with good ideas making a real go at it and the con artists and the charlatans aren’t far behind.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“You must be rendered sane according to the culture of the people.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Lords of the Middle Dark

“Better to end it than to bring into being generations yet to be born to suffer all the more!”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods