Quotes By Taylor Caldwell

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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

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

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

I will know him by his eyes.

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

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

I converse with my dog through ESP.

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

My literary success meant nothing to me.

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

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

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

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

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

Money? I lost all taste for it.

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

The world is a penal institution.

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

I'm not that interested in people.

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

My childhood was appalling.

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