Peter De Vries

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

“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.”

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

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

“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”

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

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

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

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

“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”