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
marriage husband earth
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
hate humor feels
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
couple bears intimacy
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
time able ministers
Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister.
splinters pieces sticks
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
fads way looks
Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.
cookies shapes diction
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
pick-me-up trying despair
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
self abuse celibacy
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
years expanding-universe billions
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
brain ears devices
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
design
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
bears stature
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
pairs miserable mankind
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?