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

- Peter De Vries

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

- Peter De Vries

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

- Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

- Peter De Vries

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

- Peter De Vries

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

- Peter De Vries

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

- Peter De Vries

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

- Peter De Vries

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

- Peter De Vries