A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.Peter de Vries
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.Peter de Vries
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.Peter de Vries
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.Peter de Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.Peter de Vries
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.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
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter de Vries
