It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC, 1973.
-- Frederick Buechner, (Jul 11 1926-____), US clergy, novelist; He is the prize-winning writer of psychological novels Long Days of Dying, 1950 and Return of Ansel Gibbs, 1959.