Taylor Caldwell

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

I converse with my dog through ESP.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I will know him by his eyes.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

If they cant do it in California it cant be done anywhere.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

The world is a penal institution.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I often reread books I have written.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

I'm not that interested in people.

My childhood was appalling.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

My dreams are all follies.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.