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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The…

— Jack L. Chalker

“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…

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

“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,…

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

“You can fill a bucket with water but not water with a bucket.”

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Jack L. Chalker

“The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized…

— 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

“Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.”

— Jack L. Chalker