William Peter Blatty Quotations

Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes