“If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.”
“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
“They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I say there are no atheists when you're begging God to keep alive the person you love.”
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
“Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.”
“If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).”