Quotes of Note: Jack L. Chalker, "Midnight at the Well of Souls"

Quotes of Note from Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker:

“[R]eality [is] the stabilized, transmuted primal energy.” (p. 283)

“[E]ven perfection is imperfect… .” (p. 283)

“[N]ot merely to love others, but to be loved as well … is the ultimate point of life… .” (p. 284)

“When love is meaningless, or abstract, or misunderstood, then is that person or race also meaningless.” (p. 284)

“There’s hope. And despair, too.” (pp. 285-286)

“[T]he religious prophets who made it were the ones who thought in … political terms… .” (p. 286)

“[P]eople who love people no matter what their form or looks.” (p. 295)

“Monsters aren’t racial, they’re in the mind.” (p. 296)

“Nothing equals anything, really; the equal sign is strictly for the imposed structure of the universe. Rather, everything is relative to everything else.” (p. 320)

“Utopia wasn’t fulfillment, it was stagnation.” (p. 320)

“We are the sum of our past, good as well as bad.” (p. 332)

“Don’t … run away from your fears. Face them! Stand up to them! Fight them with goodness, mercy, charity, compassion! Lick them!” (p. 334)

“When the end justifies any means, you are no better, perhaps worse, than those you despise.” (p. 335)