But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

I've never been in that position in my life, where I hate a celebrity so much that I want to call them names.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.