Quotes by Peter De Vries

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

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

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

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.