A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"
Peter De Vries
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Peter De Vries
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter De Vries
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
Peter De Vries
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1910-02-27
Year of Death:
1993
Nationality:
American |
