Jack L. Chalker Quotes

I write novels and other things.

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

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 am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Decadence is wonderful.

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