“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”Peter de Vries Source: Reuben, Reuben
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”Peter de Vries
“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.”Peter de Vries Source: The Blood of the Lamb
“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.”Peter de Vries Source: The Blood of the Lamb
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”Peter de Vries
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.”Peter de Vries
