You trust him?" he said. "No, " said Hastur. "Right, " said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

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.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

My heart is your home.

Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Annabeth: Hey, Seaweed Brain. Percy: Will you stop calling me that? Annabeth: You know you love it.