Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies ofhistory are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people beingfundamentally people.

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

I don’t see what’s so terrific about creating people as people and then gettin’ upset ‘cos they act like people.

Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in15tie-dye jeans andplaying guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

No world. Just endless Heaven or, depending who won, endless Hell. Crowley didn’t know which was worse.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.