Frases de Peter de Vries

“La nostalgia ya no es lo que era.”

“La importancia del matrimonio no se deriva de que los adultos produzcan niños, sino de que los niños produzcan adultos.”

“Todo el mundo me odia porque gusto universalmente.”

“No existe la muerte pero sí los funerales.”

“La prueba final de la omnipotencia de Dios es que no necesita existir sólo para salvarnos.”

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”

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

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

“What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.”

“What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.”

“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”

“Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.”

“Life is a zoo in a jungle”

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”

“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.”