Peter De Vries

“What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?”

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

“We are not primarily put on this earth to enjoy ourselves. We are here to be used by God for his purposes.”

“Deep down, he's shallow.”

“Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? And what are we going to have for dinner?”

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

“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to live is a bit hard to swallow.”

“It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.”

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

“Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.”

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

“Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.”

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

“The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”