Piers Anthony Quotes

I'm here to make sense.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

Did all this make sense?

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

There is a reason for everything.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.