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

Quote by Peter De Vries

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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value...

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value...

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

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

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually...

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually...

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

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

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

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

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

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

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination...

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination...

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I...

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I...

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness

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

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

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is...

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is...

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

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to...

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I...

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.