Piers Anthony Quotes.

1. "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, Knot Gneiss

2. "When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void."
- Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears

3. "Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission."
- Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears

4. "Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden."
- Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse

5. "A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn’t deserve it."
- Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse

6. "What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege."
- Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse

7. "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, On A Pale Horse

8. "Do you seek to bribe Death? Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious."
- Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse

9. "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, On A Pale Horse

10. "Information is power. --Humfrey"
- Piers Anthony, Question Quest