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.
Peter De VriesRather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.
Peter De VriesThe value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De VriesThe idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.
Peter De Vries