Peter De Vries Quotes

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.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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