Candidate Quotes by Jack L. Chalker

“It’s easy to rattle the saber if the enemy’s five thousand or more kilometers distant.”

— Jack L. Chalker

“the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,”

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

“Magic,” Core responded, “is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the…

— Jack L. Chalker

“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the…

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

“What was love, anyway? he mused. She said it was caring, caring more about someone else than about yourself.”

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

“Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.”

— Jack L. Chalker

I write novels and other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

“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

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…

— Jack L. Chalker

“Power without the wisdom to use it properly was a very good definition of evil,”

— Jack L. Chalker

“there was supposed to be this man who was Jewish and claimed to be God’s son. For this the powers-that-be killed him, because they…

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker