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-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.
relationship anniversary marriage
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
loss order law
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
nature science world
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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.
tubas instruments
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
laughter humor another-chance
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
pain heart mark
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
hate hate-me
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
punishment delay waste
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.
marriage doe stability
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
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.