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

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.

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

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.

Music is a defining element of character.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.