Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

early in her new career as Herself

“Listen—” “Heaven has no taste.” “Now—” “And not one single sushi restaurant.” A look of pain crossed the angel’s suddenly very serious face.

was the sort of sensible arrangement that many isolated agents, working in awkward conditions a long way from their superiors, reach with their opposite number when they realize that they have more in common with their immediate opponents than their remote allies.

Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

“You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction,” said the angel. “It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No ma

beginning to glimpse why almost the entire drive of human history has been an attempt to get as far away from Nature as possible,

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

She read about New Women. She hadn’t ever realized that she’d been an Old Woman, but after some thought she decided that titles like that were all one with the romance and the knitting and the orgasms, and the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

when a human was good or bad it was because they wanted to be. Whereas people like Crowley and, of course, himself, were set in their ways right from the start. People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.