Peter De Vries (1910-1993)

Quotes

• I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

• It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

• We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

• Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

• There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

• The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

• My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

• Life is a zoo in a jungle.

• I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

• Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.