There’s a story about W.C. Fields, a famously irreligious man, who near the end of his life was visited by the actor Thomas Mitchell, who found him sitting up in bed reading the Bible. When his amazed friend asked what he was doing, he replied, "looking for loopholes". [W.C. Fields: A Life on Film by Ronald J. Fields; St. Martin’s Press; New York, 1984, p. 253]
