128 Quotes by Peter De Vries

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

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it’s all a tale told by an idiot.

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I’ll have another drink.

The greatest experience open to man then is the recovery of the commonplace. Coffee in the morning and whiskeys in the evening again without fear. Books to read without that shadow falling across the page.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

Deep down, he’s shallow.

I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.

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.

I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which his own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race.