William Peter Blatty Quotes

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

Good writing is rhythm.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

Something unspeakable left the room.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.