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

#father #hate #hated #invented #radio

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#human #human heart #like #mark #pain

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

— Peter De Vries

#museums #par #restaurants

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#like #pay #rich #taxes #us

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#instruments #intestinal #lower #most #music

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#like #locked #locked up #safe #universe

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#feeding #hand #more #nothing #parenthood

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

— Peter De Vries

#begin #broken #homes #i #i can

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#before #children #enough #marriage #mature

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over