The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

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.

They're all true. They all could have happened.

Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.