If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations (ed. Courier Corporation, 2012) - ISBN: 9780486123318