“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life – a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it – filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”

“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life – a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it – filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”

— Louis Auchincloss