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

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.

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

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.

Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking.

I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics.

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.

The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.