How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells – some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim – when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.

— Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony Quotes

I don’t care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don’t really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.

— Piers Anthony

A mortal person’s mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

— Piers Anthony

When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage.” Niobe explained, “You just know what you have to do and you can’t afford fear.

— Piers Anthony

But I’ve been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn’t stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There’s a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living.

— Piers Anthony

God created the earth but the Devil evolved it.

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Now you must excuse your Raja for he must suffer to give audience to the prince of Punt, a pompous old fool, who believes that his frequent flatulencies are the echoes of the Gods applauding his non sequiturs.

— Piers Anthony

All true art stems from the depths of the unconscious mind.

— Piers Anthony

Wenda’s chest and hips shrank, her shoulders and arms turned muscular and her body became lean and hard where it had been rounded and soft. The hair of her head shortened drastically, and a mustache sprouted on her upper lip. Her delicate human feet had become hard hooves. She was now not a nymph but a faun. Physically; she would never be male in spirit.

— Piers Anthony

Hell hath little fury like that of a critic who sees a writer make it big.

— Piers Anthony

Your teacher didn’t lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

— Piers Anthony

Not any more. Not according to Glory Goblin or Brontes the Cyclops. Imbri merely confirms that Hugo has perfected his talent, and is now a good deal smarter and handsomer than before. A woman has to be responsible.

— Piers Anthony

William Henley put it: It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

— Piers Anthony

I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game – but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

— Piers Anthony

Good intentions were not enough; they had to be rationally implemented.

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But I have so much to learn!” Zane cried plaintively. “Then get to it, Death,” she said, closing the door behind her.

— Piers Anthony

It was said that familiarity bred contempt, but surely ignorance bred error.

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Dor wondered whether, if he should ever happen to be a ghost for eight hundred years, zombies might begin to look good to him. He doubted it.

— Piers Anthony

The Magician charges a year’s service. You – would not want to pay.” The Good Magician was male, and Wynne had only one obvious coin. No one would be interested in her mind.

— Piers Anthony

What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!

— Piers Anthony

Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.

— Piers Anthony
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