Peter De Vries

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

“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

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

“My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.”

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

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

“Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.”

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

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

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

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