The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. — Peter De Vries Character Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after. — Peter De Vries Being a mom Copy Share Image
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. — Peter De Vries Blindness Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Diction Copy Share Image
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor. — Peter De Vries Bachelors Copy Share Image
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the… — Peter De Vries Brilliant Copy Share Image
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. — Peter De Vries Character Copy Share Image
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. — Peter De Vries Every morning Copy Share Image
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately? — Peter De Vries Happiness Copy Share Image
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries Brain Copy Share Image
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries Food Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries Human nature Copy Share Image
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. — Peter De Vries Heart Copy Share Image
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries Bears Copy Share Image
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. — Peter De Vries Earth Copy Share Image
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. — Peter De Vries God Copy Share Image
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. — Peter De Vries Anniversary Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries Astrology Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Freedom Copy Share Image
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. — Peter De Vries Adventure Copy Share Image
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries Awfulness Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
