It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

When much is taken, something is returned.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.