The Narrator

"Six thousand years is a long time to be enemies"

"The Antichrist rides a bicycle"

"They're all going to end up in the same place anyway"

"I've spent millions of years learning to lose"

"The ineffable plan tends to work out in the end"

"The universe is big. Humans are very small. That's the main thing to remember"

"It is often better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness, although the results tend to be much the same."

"The really good thing about history is that we know what happened."

"In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."

"Whatever happens, they're always going to say you're mad. So you might as well go the whole hog."

"You can't outrun your past. You can only try to surprise it."

"Nothing travels faster than light, except bad news."

"An angel who didn't want to serve God and a demon who didn't want to serve Hell."

"They've got a prophecy, and they're bloody well going to stick to it."

"The only reason people die is because everyone does it."

"An angel is more than just faith. Sometimes it's just friendship."

"Love and hate are the same thing."

"The world will end not with a bang but with a bureaucratic memo."

"The universe doesn't care about your plans."

"The apocalypse is a very inconvenient time."

"It is often better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness, though the results tend to be much the same."

"The people who want to be angels are generally the ones most likely to fall."

"An angel who did not want to serve Heaven and a demon who did not want to serve Hell."

"The trouble with gods is that you can't live with them, and you can't live without them."

"Ineffability is not just a habit, it's a refusal to be understood."

"Some humans will believe anything if you say it confidently enough."

"There is no good and evil, only perspective."

"Love makes you willing to do stupid things."

"The apocalypse is just another Monday for some of us."

"Humans are capable of extraordinary things when motivated by love."