'Then you think there is no God?' 'No, I think there quite probably is one.' 'Then why-?' Mustapha Mond cut him short. 'But he shows himself in different ways to different men. In the old times he showed himself as the being that's described in these books. Now-' 'How does he show himself now?' asked the Savage. 'Well, he shows himself as if he weren't there at all. Where there is comfort there is no need for God.'

