Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

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.

I'm not... I'm not without a heart, ' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.

I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.