The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.

And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.