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
funny summer school
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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.
past nostalgia used
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
eye track shrinking
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.
relationship anniversary marriage
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
writing drunk discipline
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
inspirational marriage children
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
god fear order
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
years letters today
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
funny mothers-day mom
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
work writing written-word
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
inspirational motivational food
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
funny-life men exit
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
love marriage wedding
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.