Waiting for Godot

"I myself know him less well than anyone ... if his name suggests the heavens, it is only to the extent that a product for promoting hair can seem heavenly. Each person is free to put a face on him".

... Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Irish novelist, playwright.

... for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls



"a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn"

"I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls". 

    ... Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist