When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’

Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) English writer and raconteur [b. Denis Pratt]

Interview with the author, in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon (1992)