Peter De Vries

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

—Peter De Vries

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

—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

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

—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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

—Peter De Vries

I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water.

—Peter De Vries

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

—Peter De Vries

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

—Peter De Vries