Quotes by : Peter De Vries

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

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative....

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

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

How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to....

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Deep down, he's shallow.