Jack L. Chalker Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I write novels and other things. — Jack L. Chalker

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office. — 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 National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. — Jack L. Chalker

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. — 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 anything physically for their money. — 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

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

Decadence is wonderful. — 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, 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

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