The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

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.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.