God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice."Whoopee", said Crowley.

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.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I write what I see and whatever inspires me. The energy the earth gives me, what's on my mind, or what's in my heart becomes part of the lyrical content.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.