128 Quotes by Peter De Vries

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."