Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries
Peter De Vrieswas an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1910
CountryUnited States of America
people want action
People rarely do what they don't want to.
believe people suffering
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
men people wonderful
Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.
people may firsts
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
ideas people despair
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
death good
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
children marriage produce value
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
children marriage offspring produce themselves
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.
food par
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
bit locked safe universe
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe.
laughter humor another-chance
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
kissing brain rubber
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
self abuse celibacy
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
pay rich taxes
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.