Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.


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JACK L. CHALKER
I write novels and other things.
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
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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 S...
JACK L. CHALKER
Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN
Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to...
R. L. STINE
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN
No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. HUGHLEY
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. RON HUBBARD
I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON
Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
LOUISE L. HAY
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little,...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS
I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS
For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN
Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each o...
SHERI L. DEW
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS