I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. - William Somerset Maugham

"God? What has God to do with it? Do you suppose I can look at the misery in which the vast majority of the people live in the world and believe in God? Do you suppose I believe in God who let the Bolsheviks kill my poor, simple father? Do you know what I think? I think God has been dead for millions upon millions of years. I think when he took infinity and set in motion the process that has resulted in the universe, he died, and for ages and ages men have sought and worshipped a being who ceased to exist in the act of making existence possible for them." He wondered if there was anything in what she said, this woman with her tragic history and miserable life, that God had died when he created the wide world; and was he lying dead on some vast mountain range on a dead star or was he absorbed into the universe he caused to be?

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.
[Virtue]

It's a long, arduous road he's starting to travel, but it may be that at the end of it he'll find what's he's seeking.