“My feelings on religion are starting to morph. I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. … I’m almost saying …
Publications
Jerome Kern
“His religion was his music and his lifestyle — his enjoyment of elegance and his voracious appetite for having a good time.” …
David Friedrich Strauss
Mikhail Baryshnikov
“I don’t believe in marriage in the conventional way. I am not [a] religious person, and marriage in front of [the] altar wouldn’t say anything to me.” …
Paul Newman
“Although never overtly religious, Newman said he chose to think of himself as Jewish because it was ‘more challenging.’ ” …
Jules Feiffer
“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?” …
Robert Burns
“[Burns] lives in darkness and in the shadow of doubt. His religion, at best, is an anxious wish; like that of Rabelais, ‘a great Perhaps.’ ” …
W. Somerset Maugham
“I do not believe in God. I see no need of such idea. It is incredible to me that there should be an after-life. I find the notion of future …
Virginia Woolf
“I read the Book of Job last night — I don’t think God comes well out of it.” …
