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

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.

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.

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

I’ve noticed that once you find the right one for you, the one of your dreams, everything in life becomes against you, even the weather

Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!-Petra Godfellow

He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened, he’s come alive.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.