Piers Anthony Quotes

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I was devastated after Waiting for Guffman. I had never gotten so close to people I've worked with.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

You belong wherever you want to belong.

Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?

The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out from under you. You can't live in fear, or thinking "I'll never figure it out." The more consciously we can understand what we're experiencing, the more that is our protection. So, we run into adversity, but we don't have to stay there if we have imagination and a way to help ourselves change course. Sometimes we can't - knowing the difference is wisdom and the acceptance that we have enough.

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?

Nerves just mean that you care.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?

If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!

We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.

I am fat and I don't care.