Peter De Vries

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

— Peter De Vries

#writing #humor

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#aging #children #marriage #maturity #parenting

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#nature

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#inspirational

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#life-experience #experience

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 #i #i see #i write #inspired

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

— Peter De Vries

#everybody #hates #i #liked #me

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#used

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. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#confession #good #only #rather #remedy

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#earth #primarily #put #see #through